Hauppauge, NY
Hauppauge wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Hauppauge at the 32nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 7,138 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Hauppauge's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 32nd percentile nationally.
Where Hauppauge's buildings actually sit
34.5% of Hauppauge's 7,138 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 2,459 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 31.3% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 34.2% are Minimal. At 7,138 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Hauppauge ranks
Compare Hauppauge's two percentiles: 69th within New York, only 32nd nationally — a gap of 37 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hauppauge ranks 21,371 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,403 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 394 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Hauppauge and the insurance market
Hauppauge's moderate wildfire rating (32nd percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
Hauppauge's 34.5% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Hauppauge's 21,371-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Hauppauge, see the exposure-zones guide.