Babylon, NY
Babylon wildfire risk explained
Babylon's 4,559 buildings earn a 22nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Babylon at the 25th percentile, close to its 22nd-percentile risk score.
Babylon's building exposure, zone by zone
Babylon rates 96.7% Minimal exposure against just 3.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 4,559 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Babylon compares
Compare Babylon's two percentiles: 48th within New York, only 22nd nationally — a gap of 26 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Babylon ranks 24,524 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,740 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 671 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Babylon and the insurance market
At the 22nd national percentile, Babylon rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 96.7% of Babylon outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 4,559 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Babylon. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Babylon, see the exposure-zones guide.