Copake Falls, NY
Copake Falls wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Copake Falls lands at the 30th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 129 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 Copake Falls at the 28th percentile, close to its 30th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Copake Falls's 129 counted buildings, 50.4% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Copake Falls against the rest of the country
Compare Copake Falls's two percentiles: 65th within New York, only 30th nationally — a gap of 34 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Copake Falls ranks 21,935 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,761 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 451 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Copake Falls
Copake Falls's moderate wildfire rating (30th 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 Copake Falls
Because Direct exposure dominates in Copake Falls (50.4%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Copake Falls's figures come from
Copake Falls's 30th-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 Copake Falls's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.