Hicksville, NY
Hicksville wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Hicksville at the 22nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 14,774 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Hicksville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 24th percentile nationally.
Hicksville's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Hicksville's buildings (98.3% of 14,774) 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. At 14,774 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Hicksville ranks
Hicksville's 47th-percentile standing inside New York outpaces its 22nd 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, Hicksville ranks 24,686 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,004 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 682 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Hicksville
At the 22nd national percentile, Hicksville 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
Hicksville's 98.3% 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 Hicksville's 24,686-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Hicksville, see the exposure-zones guide.