Greenlawn, NY
Greenlawn wildfire risk explained
Greenlawn sits at the 27th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 4,702 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Greenlawn at the 28th percentile, close to its 27th-percentile risk score.
Where Greenlawn's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 68.7% of Greenlawn's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 31.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Greenlawn ranks
Greenlawn's 56th-percentile standing inside New York outpaces its 27th 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, Greenlawn ranks 22,978 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,621 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 561 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Greenlawn and the insurance market
At the 27th national percentile, Greenlawn rates moderate 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
Greenlawn's 68.7% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Greenlawn's 22,978-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Greenlawn, see the exposure-zones guide.