Wallkill, NY
Wallkill wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Wallkill at the 50th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 994 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Wallkill at the 53rd percentile, close to its 50th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Wallkill's 994 counted buildings, 58.1% 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 Wallkill compares
Within New York, Wallkill ranks higher (95th percentile) than it does nationally (50th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wallkill ranks 15,670 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,983 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 66 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
Wallkill's elevated rating (50th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Wallkill's 58.1% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Wallkill's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Wallkill's 15,670-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Wallkill's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.