Deer Park, NY
Deer Park, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Deer Park at the 37th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 8,962 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Deer Park at the 33rd national percentile — 4 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Deer Park's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 1.9% of Deer Park's 8,962 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0.2% carry Indirect; the remaining 97.9% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 8,962 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Deer Park compares
Deer Park's 81st-percentile standing inside New York outpaces its 37th 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, Deer Park ranks 19,735 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,858 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 251 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Deer Park and the insurance market
Deer Park's moderate wildfire rating (37th 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 97.9% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Deer Park gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Deer Park's figures come from
Deer Park's 37th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Deer Park's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.