Great Neck Gardens, NY
Great Neck Gardens, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Great Neck Gardens's 412 buildings earn a 32nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Great Neck Gardens's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 34th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Great Neck Gardens rates 73.5% Minimal exposure against just 26.5% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 412 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Great Neck Gardens ranks
Great Neck Gardens's 69th-percentile standing inside New York outpaces its 32nd national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Great Neck Gardens ranks 21,464 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,990 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 404 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Great Neck Gardens and the insurance market
Great Neck Gardens'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 Gardens
Even with 73.5% of Great Neck Gardens outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Great Neck Gardens's 32nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Great Neck Gardens, see the exposure-zones guide.