East Norwich, NY
East Norwich wildfire risk explained
East Norwich's 1,129 buildings earn a 36th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts East Norwich at the 36th percentile, close to its 36th-percentile risk score.
East Norwich's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of East Norwich's buildings (70%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How East Norwich compares
Compare East Norwich's two percentiles: 78th within New York, only 36th nationally — a gap of 42 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, East Norwich ranks 20,077 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,087 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 281 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 Norwich
East Norwich's moderate wildfire rating (36th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 70% of East Norwich'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
Every one of the two percentiles behind East Norwich's 20,077-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond East Norwich, see the exposure-zones guide.