Great Neck Estates, NY
How exposed is Great Neck Estates to wildfire?
USFS scores Great Neck Estates at the 32nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 940 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Great Neck Estates at the 33rd national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
59.7% of Great Neck Estates's 940 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 40.3% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Where Great Neck Estates ranks
Within New York, Great Neck Estates ranks higher (69th percentile) than it does nationally (32nd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Great Neck Estates ranks 21,463 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,395 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 403 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Great Neck Estates and the insurance market
Great Neck Estates's moderate rating (32nd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Great Neck Estates
Great Neck Estates's 59.7% 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 Great Neck Estates's figures come from
Great Neck Estates's 32nd-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 Great Neck Estates's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.