Pine Bush, NY
How exposed is Pine Bush to wildfire?
USFS scores Pine Bush at the 48th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 790 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 Pine Bush at the 50th percentile, close to its 48th-percentile risk score.
Where Pine Bush's buildings actually sit
56.2% of Pine Bush's 790 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 43.8% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Pine Bush compares
Pine Bush's 92nd-percentile standing inside New York outpaces its 48th 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, Pine Bush ranks 16,425 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,732 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 102 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Pine Bush and the insurance market
Pine Bush's elevated wildfire rating (48th 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.
Hardening a home in Pine Bush
Because 56.2% of Pine Bush's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Pine Bush's 48th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Pine Bush, see the exposure-zones guide.