Coxsackie, NY
How exposed is Coxsackie to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Coxsackie lands at the 18th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 1,171 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 Coxsackie at the 17th percentile, close to its 18th-percentile risk score.
Coxsackie's building exposure, zone by zone
1,171 buildings are counted in Coxsackie, and 52.2% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 12.2% rated Minimal.
Where Coxsackie ranks
Within New York, Coxsackie ranks higher (41st percentile) than it does nationally (18th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Coxsackie ranks 25,881 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,823 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 763 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
At the 18th national percentile, Coxsackie rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Coxsackie (52.2%), 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 Coxsackie's 25,881-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Coxsackie, see the exposure-zones guide.