Woodsburgh, NY
How exposed is Woodsburgh to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Woodsburgh lands at the 56th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 260 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Woodsburgh at the 51st national percentile — 5 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Woodsburgh's buildings actually sit
Woodsburgh rates 91.9% Minimal exposure against just 8.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 260 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Woodsburgh compares
Compare Woodsburgh's two percentiles: 98th within New York, only 56th nationally — a gap of 42 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Woodsburgh ranks 13,936 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,829 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 30 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
Woodsburgh's elevated wildfire rating (56th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 91.9% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Woodsburgh gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Woodsburgh's 56th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Woodsburgh, see the exposure-zones guide.