Mount Sinai, NY
Mount Sinai, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Mount Sinai at the 38th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 4,438 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Mount Sinai at the 37th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Mount Sinai's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Mount Sinai's 4,438 counted buildings, 44.9% carry Direct exposure and only 35.6% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Mount Sinai compares
Mount Sinai's 81st-percentile standing inside New York outpaces its 38th 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, Mount Sinai ranks 19,512 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,846 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 240 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mount Sinai
At the 38th national percentile, Mount Sinai rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Mount Sinai (44.9%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Mount Sinai's 38th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Mount Sinai, see the exposure-zones guide.