Palenville, NY
Palenville, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Palenville's 545 buildings earn a 40th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Palenville at the 39th percentile, close to its 40th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
545 buildings are counted in Palenville, and 99.1% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
How Palenville compares
Within New York, Palenville ranks higher (85th percentile) than it does nationally (40th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Palenville ranks 18,788 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,641 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 196 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Palenville and the insurance market
Palenville's elevated wildfire rating (40th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 99.1% of Palenville in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Palenville's 40th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Palenville, see the exposure-zones guide.