Brookville, NY
How exposed is Brookville to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Brookville at the 34th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,153 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Brookville at the 34th percentile, close to its 34th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 94.3% of Brookville's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 3.7% Indirect share and far above its 2% Minimal share — a profile where 1,087 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Brookville compares
Brookville's 73rd-percentile standing inside New York outpaces its 34th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brookville ranks 20,900 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,935 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 355 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
Brookville's moderate rating (34th 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 94.3% of Brookville 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Brookville's 20,900-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Brookville, see the exposure-zones guide.