Tribes Hill, NY
How exposed is Tribes Hill to wildfire?
USFS scores Tribes Hill at the 17th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 640 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 Tribes Hill at the 17th percentile, close to its 17th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Tribes Hill's 640 counted buildings, 75.2% carry Direct exposure and only 0.2% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Tribes Hill ranks
Tribes Hill's 39th-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, Tribes Hill ranks 26,292 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,331 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 792 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Tribes Hill
Tribes Hill's low wildfire rating (17th 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.
Hardening a home in Tribes Hill
Because Direct exposure dominates in Tribes Hill (75.2%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Tribes Hill's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Tribes Hill's 26,292-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Tribes Hill's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.