Cranberry Lake, NY
How exposed is Cranberry Lake to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Cranberry Lake at the 8th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 434 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Cranberry Lake at the 8th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Cranberry Lake's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Cranberry Lake's 434 counted buildings, 96.1% carry Direct exposure and only 2.5% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Cranberry Lake against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Cranberry Lake's 8th national percentile and its 17th 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, Cranberry Lake ranks 29,033 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,569 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,070 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Cranberry Lake
Cranberry Lake's low wildfire rating (8th 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 Cranberry Lake
With 96.1% of Cranberry Lake in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Cranberry Lake's 29,033-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Cranberry Lake, see the exposure-zones guide.