Ossining, NY
Ossining, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Ossining's 4,641 buildings earn a 37th-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, Ossining's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 35th percentile nationally.
Ossining's building exposure, zone by zone
4,641 buildings are counted in Ossining, and 47.9% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 9.2% in Direct exposure or the 42.9% rated Minimal.
How Ossining compares
Compare Ossining's two percentiles: 80th within New York, only 37th nationally — a gap of 43 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ossining ranks 19,889 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,664 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 266 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Ossining and the insurance market
At the 37th national percentile, Ossining rates moderate 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
Because 47.9% of Ossining's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Ossining's figures come from
Ossining's 37th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Ossining's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.