Chateaugay, NY
Chateaugay, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Chateaugay at the 9th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 457 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Chateaugay at the 9th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Chateaugay's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 71.8% of Chateaugay's 457 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 28.2% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Chateaugay ranks
There's little gap between Chateaugay's 9th national percentile and its 20th percentile inside New York, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Chateaugay ranks 28,723 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,135 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,029 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Chateaugay and the insurance market
At the 9th national percentile, Chateaugay rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Chateaugay
Because 71.8% of Chateaugay'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 Chateaugay's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 457 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Chateaugay. The exposure-zones guide covers what Chateaugay's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.