Hartsdale, NY
Hartsdale, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Hartsdale at the 28th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 737 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Hartsdale at the 30th percentile, close to its 28th-percentile risk score.
Where Hartsdale's buildings actually sit
Most of Hartsdale's buildings (58.3% of 737) 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 Hartsdale compares
Compare Hartsdale's two percentiles: 59th within New York, only 28th nationally — a gap of 31 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hartsdale ranks 22,639 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,248 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 532 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Hartsdale
At the 28th national percentile, Hartsdale 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
Hartsdale's 58.3% 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 Hartsdale's 22,639-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Hartsdale, see the exposure-zones guide.