Billington Heights, NY
Billington Heights, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Billington Heights lands at the 9th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 878 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Billington Heights at the 9th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Billington Heights's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Billington Heights: 98.5% of its 878 buildings, versus 0.6% Indirect and 0.9% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Billington Heights against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Billington Heights's 9th national percentile and its 19th percentile inside New York, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Billington Heights ranks 28,779 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,926 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,037 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Billington Heights
Billington Heights's low wildfire rating (9th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Billington Heights's 98.5% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Billington Heights's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 878 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Billington Heights. The exposure-zones guide covers what Billington Heights's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.