Schuylerville, NY
How exposed is Schuylerville to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Schuylerville lands at the 17th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 595 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Schuylerville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 16th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 70.4% of Schuylerville's 595 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 12.4% Direct and 17.1% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Schuylerville against the rest of the country
Schuylerville's 40th-percentile standing inside New York outpaces its 17th 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, Schuylerville ranks 26,071 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,899 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 774 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Schuylerville
At the 17th national percentile, Schuylerville rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Schuylerville (70.4% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Schuylerville's 26,071-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Schuylerville, see the exposure-zones guide.