Massapequa Park, NY
Massapequa Park, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Massapequa Park lands at the 25th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 5,770 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Massapequa Park's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 26th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
98.3% of Massapequa Park's 5,770 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 1.7% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 5,770 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Massapequa Park compares
Massapequa Park's 54th-percentile standing inside New York outpaces its 25th 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, Massapequa Park ranks 23,551 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,998 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 603 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Massapequa Park and the insurance market
Massapequa Park's moderate wildfire rating (25th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Massapequa Park's 98.3% 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.
Where Massapequa Park's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 5,770 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Massapequa Park. The exposure-zones guide covers what Massapequa Park's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.