Caledonia, NY
Caledonia, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Caledonia lands at the 8th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 1,070 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 Caledonia at the 7th percentile, close to its 8th-percentile risk score.
Where Caledonia's buildings actually sit
1,070 buildings are counted in Caledonia, and 54.7% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 33.7% rated Minimal.
How Caledonia compares
Caledonia scores 8th nationally and 16th within New York — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Caledonia ranks 29,064 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,462 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,076 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Caledonia
At the 8th national percentile, Caledonia rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With 54.7% of Caledonia 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 Caledonia's 29,064-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Caledonia, see the exposure-zones guide.