Staatsburg, NY
How exposed is Staatsburg to wildfire?
Staatsburg sits at the 35th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 344 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Staatsburg at the 35th percentile, close to its 35th-percentile risk score.
Staatsburg's building exposure, zone by zone
344 buildings are counted in Staatsburg, and 72.1% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
How Staatsburg compares
Compare Staatsburg's two percentiles: 76th within New York, only 35th nationally — a gap of 41 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Staatsburg ranks 20,363 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,473 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 304 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 35th national percentile, Staatsburg rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 72.1% of Staatsburg in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Staatsburg's 20,363-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Staatsburg, see the exposure-zones guide.