Painted Post, NY
How exposed is Painted Post to wildfire?
Painted Post's 801 buildings earn a 29th-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 Painted Post at the 28th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Painted Post's buildings actually sit
Most of Painted Post's buildings (79%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Where Painted Post ranks
Within New York, Painted Post ranks higher (62nd percentile) than it does nationally (29th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Painted Post ranks 22,319 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,622 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 496 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Painted Post
Painted Post's moderate rating (29th 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 Painted Post
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Painted Post (79% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Painted Post's 22,319-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Painted Post, see the exposure-zones guide.