East Northport, NY
How exposed is East Northport to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, East Northport lands at the 28th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 7,814 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, East Northport's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 29th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 49.5% of East Northport's 7,814 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 31.7% Direct and 18.8% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to. At 7,814 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where East Northport ranks
Compare East Northport's two percentiles: 58th within New York, only 28th nationally — a gap of 30 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, East Northport ranks 22,726 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,175 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 537 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 Northport's moderate wildfire rating (28th 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.
Hardening a home in East Northport
Because 49.5% of East Northport's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 7,814 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for East Northport. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond East Northport, see the exposure-zones guide.