Mechanicville, NY
How exposed is Mechanicville to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Mechanicville lands at the 19th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 1,591 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 Mechanicville at the 18th percentile, close to its 19th-percentile risk score.
Where Mechanicville's buildings actually sit
1,591 buildings are counted in Mechanicville, and 98.2% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 1.8% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Where Mechanicville ranks
Compare Mechanicville's two percentiles: 43rd within New York, only 19th nationally — a gap of 24 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mechanicville ranks 25,536 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,798 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 733 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 19th national percentile, Mechanicville rates low 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 Mechanicville
Because 98.2% of Mechanicville'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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Mechanicville's 25,536-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Mechanicville, see the exposure-zones guide.