Wynantskill, NY
Wynantskill wildfire risk explained
Wynantskill's 1,819 buildings earn a 17th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Wynantskill at the 16th percentile, close to its 17th-percentile risk score.
Wynantskill's building exposure, zone by zone
Wynantskill rates 76.3% Minimal exposure against just 23% Direct and 0.7% Indirect — of 1,819 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Wynantskill compares
Compare Wynantskill's two percentiles: 38th within New York, only 17th nationally — a gap of 22 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wynantskill ranks 26,324 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,008 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 796 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Wynantskill and the insurance market
Wynantskill's low wildfire rating (17th 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.
Hardening a home in Wynantskill
With 76.3% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Wynantskill 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,819 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Wynantskill. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Wynantskill, see the exposure-zones guide.