Poestenkill, NY
Poestenkill, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Poestenkill at the 21st national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 702 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 Poestenkill at the 21st percentile, close to its 21st-percentile risk score.
Where Poestenkill's buildings actually sit
Of Poestenkill's 702 counted buildings, 62.8% carry Direct exposure and only 0.6% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Poestenkill compares
Compare Poestenkill's two percentiles: 47th within New York, only 21st nationally — a gap of 25 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Poestenkill ranks 24,809 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,638 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 685 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Poestenkill
Poestenkill's moderate wildfire rating (21st 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Poestenkill's 62.8% 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
Poestenkill's 21st-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 Poestenkill, see the exposure-zones guide.