Brooktondale, NY
How exposed is Brooktondale to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Brooktondale lands at the 23rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 202 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Brooktondale at the 23rd percentile, close to its 23rd-percentile risk score.
Brooktondale's building exposure, zone by zone
202 buildings are counted in Brooktondale, and 100% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Where Brooktondale ranks
Compare Brooktondale's two percentiles: 49th within New York, only 23rd nationally — a gap of 26 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brooktondale ranks 24,365 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,774 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 664 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Brooktondale's moderate rating (23rd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 100% of Brooktondale 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
Brooktondale's 23rd-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 Brooktondale, see the exposure-zones guide.