East Farmingdale, NY
How exposed is East Farmingdale to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, East Farmingdale 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 2,915 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks East Farmingdale at the 28th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
East Farmingdale's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of East Farmingdale's buildings (94.3% of 2,915) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
How East Farmingdale compares
Compare East Farmingdale's two percentiles: 56th within New York, only 27th nationally — a gap of 29 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, East Farmingdale ranks 23,074 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,562 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 570 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
East Farmingdale and the insurance market
At the 27th national percentile, East Farmingdale rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 94.3% of East Farmingdale outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
East Farmingdale's 27th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond East Farmingdale, see the exposure-zones guide.