Northville (Suffolk), NY
Northville (Suffolk) wildfire risk explained
Northville (Suffolk)'s 1,521 buildings earn a 43rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Northville (Suffolk) at the 43rd percentile, close to its 43rd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Northville (Suffolk): 72.5% of its 1,521 buildings, versus 16.7% Indirect and 10.8% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Northville (Suffolk) ranks
Compare Northville (Suffolk)'s two percentiles: 88th within New York, only 43rd nationally — a gap of 45 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Northville (Suffolk) ranks 17,969 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,079 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 154 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Northville (Suffolk)
Northville (Suffolk)'s elevated rating (43rd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Northville (Suffolk)
Northville (Suffolk)'s 72.5% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Northville (Suffolk)'s 43rd-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 Northville (Suffolk), see the exposure-zones guide.