Pine Plains, NY
Pine Plains, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Pine Plains lands at the 34th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 796 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Pine Plains at the 32nd national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Pine Plains's buildings actually sit
57.8% of Pine Plains's 796 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 42.2% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Pine Plains compares
Compare Pine Plains's two percentiles: 72nd within New York, only 34th nationally — a gap of 39 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pine Plains ranks 20,962 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,676 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 360 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Pine Plains
At the 34th national percentile, Pine Plains rates moderate 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 Pine Plains
Pine Plains's 57.8% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Pine Plains's 34th-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 Plains, see the exposure-zones guide.