Old Field, NY
Old Field wildfire risk explained
Old Field's 525 buildings earn a 35th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Old Field's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 35th percentile nationally.
Old Field's building exposure, zone by zone
98.5% of Old Field's 525 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 517 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 1.5% are Minimal.
How Old Field compares
Compare Old Field's two percentiles: 75th within New York, only 35th nationally — a gap of 41 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Old Field ranks 20,549 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,945 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 318 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Old Field and the insurance market
At the 35th national percentile, Old Field rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Old Field
Old Field's 98.5% 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
Old Field's 35th-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 Old Field, see the exposure-zones guide.