North Bellmore, NY
North Bellmore wildfire risk explained
North Bellmore's 6,946 buildings earn a 20th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts North Bellmore at the 22nd percentile, close to its 20th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 1.1% of North Bellmore's 6,946 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 99% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 6,946 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where North Bellmore ranks
North Bellmore's 45th-percentile standing inside New York outpaces its 20th 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, North Bellmore ranks 25,225 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,493 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 709 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
North Bellmore and the insurance market
At the 20th national percentile, North Bellmore rates low 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
With 99% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, North Bellmore 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind North Bellmore's 25,225-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond North Bellmore, see the exposure-zones guide.