Westvale, NY
Westvale, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Westvale sits at the 7th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 2,371 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 Westvale at the 7th percentile, close to its 7th-percentile risk score.
Westvale's building exposure, zone by zone
Westvale rates 45.5% Minimal exposure against just 11.8% Direct and 42.8% Indirect — of 2,371 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Westvale ranks
There's little gap between Westvale's 7th national percentile and its 14th percentile inside New York, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Westvale ranks 29,195 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,569 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,104 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Westvale
At the 7th national percentile, Westvale rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Westvale's 45.5% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Westvale's 29,195-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Westvale, see the exposure-zones guide.