Palatine Bridge, NY
Palatine Bridge, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Palatine Bridge at the 7th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 367 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 Palatine Bridge at the 7th percentile, close to its 7th-percentile risk score.
Where Palatine Bridge's buildings actually sit
78.8% of Palatine Bridge's 367 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 289 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 19.9% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 1.4% are Minimal.
Where Palatine Bridge ranks
Palatine Bridge scores 7th nationally and 12th within New York — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Palatine Bridge ranks 29,418 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,928 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,136 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 7th national percentile, Palatine Bridge rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Palatine Bridge
Palatine Bridge's 78.8% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Palatine Bridge's 29,418-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Palatine Bridge, see the exposure-zones guide.