Hyde Park, NY
Hyde Park, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Hyde Park at the 32nd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 987 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Hyde Park's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 32nd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
987 buildings are counted in Hyde Park, and 60.5% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 32.2% in Direct exposure or the 7.3% rated Minimal.
How Hyde Park compares
Within New York, Hyde Park ranks higher (69th 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, Hyde Park ranks 21,433 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,027 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 401 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Hyde Park
Hyde Park's moderate rating (32nd 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 Hyde Park
Because 60.5% of Hyde Park'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.
Where Hyde Park's figures come from
Hyde Park's 32nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Hyde Park's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.