New Windsor, NY
How exposed is New Windsor to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts New Windsor at the 32nd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 3,434 actual buildings. (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 Windsor at the 32nd percentile, close to its 32nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 11.2% of New Windsor's 3,434 buildings carry Direct exposure and 17.1% carry Indirect; the remaining 71.7% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
New Windsor against the rest of the country
New Windsor's 70th-percentile standing inside New York outpaces its 32nd national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, New Windsor ranks 21,372 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,866 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 395 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
New Windsor and the insurance market
New Windsor's moderate rating (32nd 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 New Windsor
Even with 71.7% of New Windsor outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind New Windsor's 21,372-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond New Windsor, see the exposure-zones guide.