Hawthorne, NY
How exposed is Hawthorne to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Hawthorne at the 39th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,699 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Hawthorne at the 37th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Hawthorne's buildings actually sit
Hawthorne rates 82.2% Minimal exposure against just 6.8% Direct and 11% Indirect — of 1,699 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Hawthorne ranks
Compare Hawthorne's two percentiles: 83rd within New York, only 39th nationally — a gap of 44 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hawthorne ranks 19,193 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,422 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 219 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Hawthorne and the insurance market
Hawthorne's moderate rating (39th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Hawthorne's 82.2% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,699 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Hawthorne. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Hawthorne, see the exposure-zones guide.