Chazy, NY
Chazy wildfire risk explained
Chazy's 382 buildings earn a 9th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Chazy at the 8th percentile, close to its 9th-percentile risk score.
Chazy's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Chazy's buildings (56.5%) 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 Chazy compares
Chazy scores 9th nationally and 19th 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, Chazy ranks 28,848 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,599 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,046 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
Chazy's low rating (9th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Chazy
Chazy's 56.5% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Chazy's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Chazy's 28,848-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Chazy's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.