Green Island, NY
Green Island wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Green Island lands at the 12th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 918 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 Green Island at the 11th percentile, close to its 12th-percentile risk score.
Where Green Island's buildings actually sit
Only 0.2% of Green Island's 918 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 99.8% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Green Island compares
Green Island's 28th-percentile standing inside New York outpaces its 12th 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, Green Island ranks 27,895 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,574 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 928 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Green Island and the insurance market
At the 12th national percentile, Green Island rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 99.8% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Green Island 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 Green Island's 27,895-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Green Island, see the exposure-zones guide.