Monsey, NY
Monsey, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Monsey at the 25th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 2,383 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Monsey at the 25th percentile, close to its 25th-percentile risk score.
Monsey's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 23.7% of Monsey's 2,383 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 76.3% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Monsey against the rest of the country
Monsey's 52nd-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, Monsey ranks 23,676 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,543 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 617 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Monsey and the insurance market
Monsey's moderate rating (25th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Monsey
Even with 76.3% of Monsey 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
Monsey's 25th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Monsey, see the exposure-zones guide.