Sleepy Hollow Lake, NY
Sleepy Hollow Lake wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Sleepy Hollow Lake at the 23rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 793 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 Sleepy Hollow Lake at the 21st percentile, close to its 23rd-percentile risk score.
Where Sleepy Hollow Lake's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 71.1% of Sleepy Hollow Lake's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 16% Indirect share and far above its 12.9% Minimal share — a profile where 564 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Sleepy Hollow Lake compares
Compare Sleepy Hollow Lake's two percentiles: 48th within New York, only 23rd nationally — a gap of 26 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sleepy Hollow Lake ranks 24,400 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,703 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 667 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 23rd national percentile, Sleepy Hollow Lake rates moderate 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
Sleepy Hollow Lake's 71.1% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 793 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Sleepy Hollow Lake. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Sleepy Hollow Lake, see the exposure-zones guide.