New Square, NY
New Square wildfire risk explained
USFS scores New Square at the 23rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 458 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts New Square at the 23rd percentile, close to its 23rd-percentile risk score.
Where New Square's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 97.8% of New Square's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 2.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
New Square against the rest of the country
Within New York, New Square ranks higher (49th percentile) than it does nationally (23rd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, New Square ranks 24,305 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,107 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 657 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
New Square and the insurance market
At the 23rd national percentile, New Square rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
New Square's 97.8% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
New Square's 23rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond New Square, see the exposure-zones guide.