Kings Point, NY
How exposed is Kings Point to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Kings Point lands at the 30th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 1,898 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Kings Point at the 31st percentile, close to its 30th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 40.3% of Kings Point's 1,898 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 59.7% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Kings Point compares
Compare Kings Point's two percentiles: 62nd within New York, only 30th nationally — a gap of 33 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kings Point ranks 22,195 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,778 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 484 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Kings Point and the insurance market
Kings Point's moderate wildfire rating (30th 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.
Hardening a home in Kings Point
Kings Point's 59.7% 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
Kings Point's 30th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Kings Point, see the exposure-zones guide.