Barrytown, NY
Barrytown, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Barrytown at the 30th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 59 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Barrytown at the 30th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Barrytown's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 98.3% of Barrytown's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 0% Indirect share and far above its 1.7% Minimal share — a profile where 58 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Barrytown ranks
Within New York, Barrytown ranks higher (65th percentile) than it does nationally (30th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Barrytown ranks 21,970 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,688 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 456 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Barrytown and the insurance market
Barrytown's moderate wildfire rating (30th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 98.3% of Barrytown 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
Barrytown's 30th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Barrytown, see the exposure-zones guide.