Walker Valley, NY
Walker Valley, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Walker Valley sits at the 64th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 592 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 Walker Valley at the 63rd percentile, close to its 64th-percentile risk score.
Walker Valley's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Walker Valley's 592 counted buildings, 100% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Walker Valley compares
Compare Walker Valley's two percentiles: 100th within New York, only 64th nationally — a gap of 36 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Walker Valley ranks 11,353 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,940 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 6 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Walker Valley
At the 64th percentile nationally, Walker Valley carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Walker Valley (100%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Walker Valley's 11,353-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Walker Valley, see the exposure-zones guide.