Winthrop, NY
Winthrop wildfire risk explained
Winthrop sits at the 16th 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 331 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Winthrop at the 16th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Winthrop's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 84.9% of Winthrop's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 15.1% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 281 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Winthrop ranks
Within New York, Winthrop ranks higher (38th percentile) than it does nationally (16th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Winthrop ranks 26,413 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,802 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 803 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Winthrop and the insurance market
At the 16th national percentile, Winthrop 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 Winthrop
Winthrop's 84.9% 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 Winthrop's 26,413-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Winthrop, see the exposure-zones guide.