Kaser, NY
Kaser wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Kaser lands at the 22nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 181 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Kaser at the 23rd percentile, close to its 22nd-percentile risk score.
Where Kaser's buildings actually sit
Only 2.2% of Kaser's 181 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 97.8% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Kaser against the rest of the country
Kaser's 48th-percentile standing inside New York outpaces its 22nd 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, Kaser ranks 24,461 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,590 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 669 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Kaser and the insurance market
Kaser's moderate wildfire rating (22nd 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 97.8% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Kaser gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Kaser's 24,461-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Kaser, see the exposure-zones guide.