East Shoreham, NY
How exposed is East Shoreham to wildfire?
East Shoreham sits at the 61st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 2,660 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks East Shoreham at the 53rd national percentile — 8 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
East Shoreham's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in East Shoreham: 59% of its 2,660 buildings, versus 38% Indirect and 3.1% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How East Shoreham compares
Within New York, East Shoreham ranks higher (99th percentile) than it does nationally (61st) — 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 Shoreham ranks 12,299 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,004 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 16 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 Shoreham
East Shoreham's 61st-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in East Shoreham
East Shoreham's 59% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,660 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for East Shoreham. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond East Shoreham, see the exposure-zones guide.