Glens Falls North, NY
Glens Falls North, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Glens Falls North's 3,352 buildings earn a 25th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Glens Falls North at the 23rd national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Glens Falls North's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Glens Falls North's 3,352 counted buildings, 36% carry Direct exposure and only 30.2% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Glens Falls North compares
Glens Falls North's 53rd-percentile standing inside New York outpaces its 25th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Glens Falls North ranks 23,550 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,979 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 602 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
Glens Falls North's moderate rating (25th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Glens Falls North
With 36% of Glens Falls North 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 3,352 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Glens Falls North. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Glens Falls North, see the exposure-zones guide.