Eastport, NY
Eastport wildfire risk explained
Eastport's 1,235 buildings earn a 66th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Eastport's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 57th percentile nationally.
Eastport's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Eastport: 53.9% of its 1,235 buildings, versus 17.6% Indirect and 28.5% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Eastport ranks
Compare Eastport's two percentiles: 100th within New York, only 66th nationally — a gap of 34 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Eastport ranks 10,848 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,439 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 5 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Eastport and the insurance market
Eastport's 66th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 53.9% of Eastport in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,235 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Eastport. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Eastport, see the exposure-zones guide.