East Islip, NY
East Islip, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
East Islip sits at the 45th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 5,246 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks East Islip at the 44th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where East Islip's buildings actually sit
81% of East Islip's 5,246 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 13% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 5,246 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
East Islip against the rest of the country
Within New York, East Islip ranks higher (90th percentile) than it does nationally (45th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, East Islip ranks 17,212 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,286 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 131 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in East Islip
East Islip's elevated rating (45th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
East Islip's 81% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind East Islip's 17,212-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond East Islip, see the exposure-zones guide.