Ardsley, NY
How exposed is Ardsley to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Ardsley at the 33rd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,513 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 Ardsley at the 33rd percentile, close to its 33rd-percentile risk score.
Ardsley's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 38% of Ardsley's 1,513 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 62% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Ardsley against the rest of the country
Ardsley's 71st-percentile standing inside New York outpaces its 33rd national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ardsley ranks 21,116 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,110 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 372 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Ardsley
Ardsley's moderate wildfire rating (33rd 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 Ardsley
Ardsley's 62% 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.
More on how this number was built
Ardsley's 33rd-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 Ardsley, see the exposure-zones guide.