Greenport West, NY
Greenport West wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Greenport West at the 29th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,671 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 Greenport West at the 28th percentile, close to its 29th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Greenport West's buildings (64.5% of 1,671) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
How Greenport West compares
Compare Greenport West's two percentiles: 62nd within New York, only 29th nationally — a gap of 33 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Greenport West ranks 22,283 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,519 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 492 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Greenport West
At the 29th national percentile, Greenport West rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Greenport West
Even with 64.5% of Greenport West 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Greenport West's 22,283-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Greenport West, see the exposure-zones guide.