Lake Ronkonkoma, NY
Lake Ronkonkoma, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Lake Ronkonkoma at the 30th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 6,306 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 Lake Ronkonkoma at the 32nd percentile, close to its 30th-percentile risk score.
Lake Ronkonkoma's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 18.5% of Lake Ronkonkoma's 6,306 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 81.5% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 6,306 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Lake Ronkonkoma against the rest of the country
Compare Lake Ronkonkoma's two percentiles: 63rd 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, Lake Ronkonkoma ranks 22,162 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,750 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 477 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 30th national percentile, Lake Ronkonkoma rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 81.5% of Lake Ronkonkoma outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lake Ronkonkoma's 22,162-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Lake Ronkonkoma, see the exposure-zones guide.