Newark, NY
How exposed is Newark to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Newark lands at the 5th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 3,704 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Newark at the 6th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Newark's buildings actually sit
Newark rates 67.1% Minimal exposure against just 32.9% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 3,704 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Newark ranks
There's little gap between Newark's 5th national percentile and its 7th percentile inside New York, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Newark ranks 29,823 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,517 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,208 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Newark and the insurance market
Newark's low rating (5th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 67.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Newark gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 3,704 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Newark. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Newark, see the exposure-zones guide.