Taconic Shores, NY
Taconic Shores, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Taconic Shores at the 28th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 464 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Taconic Shores at the 26th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Taconic Shores's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Taconic Shores: 59.5% of its 464 buildings, versus 37.1% Indirect and 3.5% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Taconic Shores compares
Compare Taconic Shores's two percentiles: 59th within New York, only 28th nationally — a gap of 30 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Taconic Shores ranks 22,692 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,991 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 536 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Taconic Shores
Taconic Shores's moderate wildfire rating (28th 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
Because Direct exposure dominates in Taconic Shores (59.5%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Taconic Shores's figures come from
Taconic Shores's 28th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Taconic Shores's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.