Wilmington, NY
How exposed is Wilmington to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Wilmington lands at the 25th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 718 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Wilmington at the 25th percentile, close to its 25th-percentile risk score.
Wilmington's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Wilmington: 92.3% of its 718 buildings, versus 7.7% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Wilmington against the rest of the country
Compare Wilmington's two percentiles: 53rd within New York, only 25th nationally — a gap of 28 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wilmington ranks 23,552 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,482 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 604 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Wilmington
Wilmington's moderate wildfire rating (25th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Wilmington
With 92.3% of Wilmington in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Wilmington's 23,552-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Wilmington, see the exposure-zones guide.