Fairview (Dutchess), NY
How exposed is Fairview (Dutchess) to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Fairview (Dutchess) at the 32nd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 2,238 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Fairview (Dutchess) at the 31st percentile, close to its 32nd-percentile risk score.
Where Fairview (Dutchess)'s buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 66.3% of Fairview (Dutchess)'s buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 23.2% Direct and 10.6% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Fairview (Dutchess) compares
Within New York, Fairview (Dutchess) ranks higher (68th percentile) than it does nationally (32nd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fairview (Dutchess) ranks 21,592 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,842 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 419 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 32nd national percentile, Fairview (Dutchess) 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 Fairview (Dutchess)
Fairview (Dutchess)'s 66.3% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,238 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Fairview (Dutchess). For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Fairview (Dutchess), see the exposure-zones guide.