Carle Place, NY
Carle Place wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Carle Place lands at the 27th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 1,846 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Carle Place at the 31st national percentile — 4 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Carle Place's building exposure, zone by zone
99.5% of Carle Place's 1,846 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 0.5% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Where Carle Place ranks
Carle Place's 56th-percentile standing inside New York outpaces its 27th 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, Carle Place ranks 23,106 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,922 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 572 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Carle Place and the insurance market
Carle Place's moderate wildfire rating (27th 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
Carle Place's 99.5% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,846 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Carle Place. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Carle Place, see the exposure-zones guide.