East Meadow, NY
East Meadow, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, East Meadow lands at the 18th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 11,793 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks East Meadow at the 24th national percentile — 6 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 98.7% of East Meadow's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 1.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 11,793 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
East Meadow against the rest of the country
East Meadow's 41st-percentile standing inside New York outpaces its 18th 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, East Meadow ranks 25,851 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,324 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 757 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
East Meadow's low rating (18th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in East Meadow
With 98.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, East Meadow 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 11,793 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for East Meadow. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond East Meadow, see the exposure-zones guide.