Merritt Park, NY
Merritt Park wildfire risk explained
Merritt Park 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 295 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Merritt Park at the 33rd percentile, close to its 34th-percentile risk score.
Where Merritt Park's buildings actually sit
Most of Merritt Park's buildings (93.9%) 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 Merritt Park ranks
Merritt Park's 72nd-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, Merritt Park ranks 20,961 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,763 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 359 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Merritt Park
Merritt Park'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.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Merritt Park (93.9% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Merritt Park's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Merritt Park's 20,961-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Merritt Park's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.