Westport, NY
How exposed is Westport to wildfire?
Westport sits at the 25th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 493 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Westport at the 26th percentile, close to its 25th-percentile risk score.
Westport's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Westport: 59.4% of its 493 buildings, versus 38.5% Indirect and 2% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Westport against the rest of the country
Within New York, Westport ranks higher (53rd percentile) than it does nationally (25th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Westport ranks 23,578 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,480 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 605 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Westport
Westport's moderate rating (25th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Westport's 59.4% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Westport's 23,578-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Westport, see the exposure-zones guide.