Lorenz Park, NY
How exposed is Lorenz Park to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Lorenz Park at the 19th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 985 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Lorenz Park at the 18th percentile, close to its 19th-percentile risk score.
Lorenz Park's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Lorenz Park (88.4% of 985 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 11.6% sit in the Direct zone.
Where Lorenz Park ranks
Lorenz Park's 44th-percentile standing inside New York outpaces its 19th 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, Lorenz Park ranks 25,506 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,041 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 730 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
Lorenz Park's low wildfire rating (19th 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 Lorenz Park
Lorenz Park's 88.4% 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.
Where Lorenz Park's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lorenz Park's 25,506-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Lorenz Park's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.