Ellenville, NY
How exposed is Ellenville to wildfire?
Ellenville's 1,504 buildings earn a 58th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Ellenville at the 57th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
1,504 buildings are counted in Ellenville, and 72.1% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 27.9% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Where Ellenville ranks
Compare Ellenville's two percentiles: 98th within New York, only 58th nationally — a gap of 40 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ellenville ranks 13,122 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,159 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 22 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Ellenville and the insurance market
Ellenville's elevated rating (58th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 72.1% of Ellenville's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Ellenville's 58th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Ellenville, see the exposure-zones guide.