Millerton, NY
How exposed is Millerton to wildfire?
Millerton's 463 buildings earn a 34th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Millerton at the 33rd national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Millerton (72.1% of 463 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 27.9% sit in the Direct zone.
How Millerton compares
Compare Millerton's two percentiles: 72nd within New York, only 34th nationally — a gap of 39 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Millerton ranks 20,901 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,012 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 356 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Millerton and the insurance market
At the 34th national percentile, Millerton rates moderate 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
Because 72.1% of Millerton'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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 463 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Millerton. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Millerton, see the exposure-zones guide.