Wanakah, NY
Wanakah wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Wanakah at the 30th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,834 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Wanakah at the 31st national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Wanakah's building exposure, zone by zone
Wanakah rates 81.8% Minimal exposure against just 18.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 1,834 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Wanakah compares
Compare Wanakah's two percentiles: 64th within New York, only 30th nationally — a gap of 34 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wanakah ranks 22,065 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,965 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 466 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Wanakah and the insurance market
Wanakah's moderate rating (30th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Wanakah's 81.8% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Wanakah's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,834 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Wanakah. The exposure-zones guide covers what Wanakah's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.