Glen Park, NY
How exposed is Glen Park to wildfire?
Glen Park's 271 buildings earn a 10th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Glen Park's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 10th percentile nationally.
Glen Park's building exposure, zone by zone
Glen Park rates 50.5% Minimal exposure against just 43.2% Direct and 6.3% Indirect — of 271 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Glen Park compares
Glen Park's risk sits at a similar level relative to New York (22nd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (10th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Glen Park ranks 28,469 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,476 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 999 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Glen Park
Glen Park's low wildfire rating (10th 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 Glen Park
Glen Park's 50.5% 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 Glen Park's figures come from
Glen Park's 10th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Glen Park's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.