Great Neck Plaza, NY
Great Neck Plaza wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Great Neck Plaza at the 34th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 411 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Great Neck Plaza at the 35th percentile, close to its 34th-percentile risk score.
Great Neck Plaza's building exposure, zone by zone
Great Neck Plaza rates 91.2% Minimal exposure against just 8.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 411 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Great Neck Plaza against the rest of the country
Within New York, Great Neck Plaza ranks higher (74th percentile) than it does nationally (34th) — 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 Plaza ranks 20,771 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,014 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 340 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Great Neck Plaza
Great Neck Plaza's moderate wildfire rating (34th 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 Great Neck Plaza
With 91.2% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Great Neck Plaza gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Great Neck Plaza's 20,771-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Great Neck Plaza, see the exposure-zones guide.