Franklin Square, NY
Franklin Square, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Franklin Square sits at the 27th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 10,005 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Franklin Square at the 32nd national percentile — 5 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Franklin Square's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 0.1% of Franklin Square's 10,005 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 99.9% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 10,005 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Franklin Square against the rest of the country
Compare Franklin Square's two percentiles: 55th within New York, only 27th nationally — a gap of 29 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Franklin Square ranks 23,138 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,612 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 578 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Franklin Square and the insurance market
Franklin Square's moderate wildfire rating (27th 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.
Hardening a home in Franklin Square
Franklin Square's 99.9% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Franklin Square's 23,138-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Franklin Square, see the exposure-zones guide.