Crown Heights, NY
Crown Heights, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Crown Heights at the 27th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 984 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 Crown Heights at the 28th percentile, close to its 27th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 87% of Crown Heights's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 12.2% Direct and 0.8% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Crown Heights against the rest of the country
Within New York, Crown Heights ranks higher (55th percentile) than it does nationally (27th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Crown Heights ranks 23,171 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,045 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 579 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Crown Heights
Crown Heights'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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 87% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Crown Heights gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 984 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Crown Heights. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Crown Heights, see the exposure-zones guide.