Locust Valley, NY
Locust Valley wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Locust Valley lands at the 36th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 1,433 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 Locust Valley at the 36th percentile, close to its 36th-percentile risk score.
Where Locust Valley's buildings actually sit
Most of Locust Valley's buildings (75.7%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Where Locust Valley ranks
Within New York, Locust Valley ranks higher (78th percentile) than it does nationally (36th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Locust Valley ranks 20,048 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,465 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 278 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Locust Valley and the insurance market
At the 36th national percentile, Locust Valley rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Locust Valley
Locust Valley's 75.7% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Locust Valley's 20,048-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Locust Valley, see the exposure-zones guide.