Crest View Heights, NY
Crest View Heights, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Crest View Heights at the 14th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 798 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Crest View Heights's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 13th percentile nationally.
Where Crest View Heights's buildings actually sit
Of Crest View Heights's 798 counted buildings, 58% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Crest View Heights against the rest of the country
Crest View Heights's 34th-percentile standing inside New York outpaces its 14th 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, Crest View Heights ranks 27,014 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,652 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 851 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Crest View Heights
Crest View Heights's low wildfire rating (14th 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
Crest View Heights's 58% 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 Crest View Heights's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Crest View Heights's 27,014-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Crest View Heights's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.