Copake, NY
Copake, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Copake sits at the 28th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 269 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (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 at the 26th percentile, close to its 28th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
269 buildings are counted in Copake, and 56.1% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
How Copake compares
Within New York, Copake ranks higher (58th percentile) than it does nationally (28th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Copake ranks 22,791 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,545 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 543 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Copake and the insurance market
At the 28th national percentile, Copake rates moderate 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 Copake
Because Direct exposure dominates in Copake (56.1%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Copake's 22,791-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Copake, see the exposure-zones guide.