Lyon Mountain, NY
Lyon Mountain wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Lyon Mountain at the 13th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 287 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Lyon Mountain's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 13th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Lyon Mountain's 287 counted buildings, 50.5% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Lyon Mountain against the rest of the country
Compare Lyon Mountain's two percentiles: 32nd within New York, only 13th nationally — a gap of 19 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lyon Mountain ranks 27,364 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,986 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 880 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Lyon Mountain and the insurance market
Lyon Mountain's low rating (13th 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 Lyon Mountain
Lyon Mountain's 50.5% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Lyon Mountain's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lyon Mountain's 27,364-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Lyon Mountain's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.