Wilson, NY
How exposed is Wilson to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Wilson at the 1st national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 712 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Wilson at the 1st percentile, close to its 1st-percentile risk score.
Where Wilson's buildings actually sit
62.4% of Wilson's 712 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 37.6% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Wilson against the rest of the country
Wilson scores 1st nationally and 0th within New York — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wilson ranks 31,113 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,540 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,289 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Wilson and the insurance market
At the 1st national percentile, Wilson rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Wilson
Even with 62.4% of Wilson outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Wilson's 31,113-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Wilson, see the exposure-zones guide.