North Bellport, NY
How exposed is North Bellport to wildfire?
USFS scores North Bellport at the 53rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 3,458 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, North Bellport's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 49th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
83.4% of North Bellport's 3,458 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 15.8% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Where North Bellport ranks
Compare North Bellport's two percentiles: 97th within New York, only 53rd nationally — a gap of 44 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, North Bellport ranks 14,813 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,834 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 44 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in North Bellport
North Bellport's elevated wildfire rating (53rd 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.
What would actually reduce this score
North Bellport's 83.4% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
North Bellport's 53rd-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 North Bellport, see the exposure-zones guide.