Menands, NY
Menands, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Menands's 1,387 buildings earn a 13th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Menands at the 12th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Menands's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 38.6% of Menands's 1,387 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 27.7% Direct and 33.7% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Menands ranks
Within New York, Menands ranks higher (30th percentile) than it does nationally (13th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Menands ranks 27,552 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,684 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 896 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Menands and the insurance market
At the 13th national percentile, Menands rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Menands's 38.6% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Menands's figures come from
Menands's 13th-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 Menands's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.