Tupper Lake, NY
Tupper Lake wildfire risk explained
Tupper Lake sits at the 15th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,842 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Tupper Lake at the 13th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Tupper Lake's building exposure, zone by zone
1,842 buildings are counted in Tupper Lake, and 74.4% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 25.5% in Direct exposure or the 0.1% rated Minimal.
How Tupper Lake compares
Compare Tupper Lake's two percentiles: 35th within New York, only 15th nationally — a gap of 20 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Tupper Lake ranks 26,826 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,943 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 836 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Tupper Lake
At the 15th national percentile, Tupper Lake 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
Because 74.4% of Tupper Lake's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Tupper Lake's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,842 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Tupper Lake. The exposure-zones guide covers what Tupper Lake's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.