Dix Hills, NY
Dix Hills, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Dix Hills lands at the 33rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 9,938 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Dix Hills's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 32nd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 54.6% of Dix Hills's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 4.8% Indirect share and far above its 40.6% Minimal share — a profile where 5,421 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most. At 9,938 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Dix Hills against the rest of the country
Compare Dix Hills's two percentiles: 72nd within New York, only 33rd nationally — a gap of 38 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dix Hills ranks 21,058 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,629 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 365 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Dix Hills and the insurance market
Dix Hills's moderate wildfire rating (33rd 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 54.6% of Dix Hills in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Dix Hills's 33rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Dix Hills, see the exposure-zones guide.