Fort Salonga, NY
Fort Salonga, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Fort Salonga lands at the 31st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 4,310 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Fort Salonga at the 31st national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Fort Salonga's buildings actually sit
4,310 buildings are counted in Fort Salonga, and 75.7% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 1.3% rated Minimal.
Fort Salonga against the rest of the country
Within New York, Fort Salonga ranks higher (66th percentile) than it does nationally (31st) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fort Salonga ranks 21,778 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,972 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 439 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
Fort Salonga's moderate rating (31st percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 75.7% of Fort Salonga 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Fort Salonga's 21,778-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Fort Salonga, see the exposure-zones guide.