Freeport, NY
How exposed is Freeport to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Freeport lands at the 51st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 10,870 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Freeport's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 44th percentile nationally.
Where Freeport's buildings actually sit
Freeport rates 97.6% Minimal exposure against just 2.4% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 10,870 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 10,870 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Freeport ranks
Within New York, Freeport ranks higher (96th percentile) than it does nationally (51st) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Freeport ranks 15,476 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,457 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 58 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Freeport and the insurance market
Freeport's elevated wildfire rating (51st 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Freeport's 97.6% 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.
Where Freeport's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 10,870 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Freeport. The exposure-zones guide covers what Freeport's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.