Catskill, NY
How exposed is Catskill to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Catskill at the 25th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,574 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 Catskill at the 23rd percentile, close to its 25th-percentile risk score.
Catskill's building exposure, zone by zone
42.1% of Catskill's 1,574 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 24.7% Direct and 33.2% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Catskill compares
Catskill's 52nd-percentile standing inside New York outpaces its 25th 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, Catskill ranks 23,765 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,868 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 624 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Catskill
Catskill's moderate wildfire rating (25th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 42.1% of Catskill'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.
Where Catskill's figures come from
Catskill's 25th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Catskill's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.