Baxter Estates, NY
Baxter Estates wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Baxter Estates at the 28th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 349 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Baxter Estates at the 30th percentile, close to its 28th-percentile risk score.
Baxter Estates's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 62.2% of Baxter Estates's 349 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 37.8% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Baxter Estates compares
Compare Baxter Estates's two percentiles: 59th within New York, only 28th nationally — a gap of 31 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Baxter Estates ranks 22,636 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,345 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 529 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Baxter Estates
At the 28th national percentile, Baxter Estates rates moderate 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 Baxter Estates
Because 62.2% of Baxter Estates's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Baxter Estates's 22,636-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Baxter Estates, see the exposure-zones guide.