Amagansett, NY
Amagansett, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Amagansett sits at the 21st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 2,510 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 Amagansett at the 21st percentile, close to its 21st-percentile risk score.
Amagansett's building exposure, zone by zone
53.6% of Amagansett's 2,510 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 45.9% Direct and 0.5% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where Amagansett ranks
Compare Amagansett's two percentiles: 47th within New York, only 21st nationally — a gap of 25 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Amagansett ranks 24,870 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,285 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 689 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Amagansett and the insurance market
Amagansett's moderate rating (21st 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
Because 53.6% of Amagansett's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Amagansett's 21st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Amagansett, see the exposure-zones guide.