Callicoon, NY
Callicoon, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Callicoon at the 46th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 210 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Callicoon at the 46th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Callicoon's buildings actually sit
Most of Callicoon's buildings (57.1%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Callicoon compares
Callicoon's 91st-percentile standing inside New York outpaces its 46th 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, Callicoon ranks 16,934 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,489 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 117 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Callicoon and the insurance market
Callicoon's elevated wildfire rating (46th 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.
Hardening a home in Callicoon
Because 57.1% of Callicoon'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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 210 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Callicoon. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Callicoon, see the exposure-zones guide.