Windsor, NY
How exposed is Windsor to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Windsor lands at the 16th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 453 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Windsor at the 15th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
453 buildings are counted in Windsor, and 51.2% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 48.8% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Where Windsor ranks
Compare Windsor's two percentiles: 37th within New York, only 16th nationally — a gap of 21 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Windsor ranks 26,642 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,222 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 818 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Windsor and the insurance market
Windsor's low rating (16th 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
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Windsor (51.2% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Windsor's 26,642-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Windsor, see the exposure-zones guide.