Manhasset Hills, NY
Manhasset Hills, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Manhasset Hills sits at the 34th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,184 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Manhasset Hills at the 36th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 97.9% of Manhasset Hills's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 2.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Manhasset Hills compares
Manhasset Hills's 74th-percentile standing inside New York outpaces its 34th 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, Manhasset Hills ranks 20,740 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,742 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 333 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
Manhasset Hills's moderate wildfire rating (34th 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 Manhasset Hills
Even with 97.9% of Manhasset Hills 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,184 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Manhasset Hills. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Manhasset Hills, see the exposure-zones guide.