New City, NY
New City wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, New City lands at the 27th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 11,874 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks New City at the 25th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
New City's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 58.8% of New City's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 34.8% Direct and 6.3% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 11,874 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
New City against the rest of the country
New City's 56th-percentile standing inside New York outpaces its 27th 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, New City ranks 23,048 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,315 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 569 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in New City
New City's moderate wildfire rating (27th 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 New City
Even with 58.8% of New City 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.
Where New City's figures come from
New City's 27th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what New City's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.