East Williston, NY
How exposed is East Williston to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts East Williston at the 28th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 957 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, East Williston's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 31st percentile nationally.
Where East Williston's buildings actually sit
East Williston rates 83.6% Minimal exposure against just 16.4% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 957 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where East Williston ranks
Compare East Williston'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 Williston ranks 22,727 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,258 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 538 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
At the 28th national percentile, East Williston rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
East Williston's 83.6% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 957 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for East Williston. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond East Williston, see the exposure-zones guide.