East Rockaway, NY
How exposed is East Rockaway to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts East Rockaway at the 46th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 3,149 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks East Rockaway at the 43rd national percentile — 3 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where East Rockaway's buildings actually sit
Only 0.7% of East Rockaway's 3,149 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 99.3% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
East Rockaway against the rest of the country
East Rockaway's 91st-percentile standing inside New York outpaces its 46th 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 Rockaway ranks 16,965 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,234 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 120 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
East Rockaway and the insurance market
East Rockaway's elevated wildfire rating (46th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 99.3% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, East Rockaway 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind East Rockaway's 16,965-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 Rockaway, see the exposure-zones guide.