Greece, NY
Greece wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Greece lands at the 8th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 5,404 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Greece at the 8th percentile, close to its 8th-percentile risk score.
Greece's building exposure, zone by zone
72.2% of Greece's 5,404 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 27.8% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 5,404 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Greece against the rest of the country
Greece scores 8th nationally and 16th within New York — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Greece ranks 29,130 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,194 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,091 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Greece and the insurance market
At the 8th national percentile, Greece rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Greece's 72.2% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Greece's 29,130-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Greece, see the exposure-zones guide.