Plandome, NY
How exposed is Plandome to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Plandome lands at the 27th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 530 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Plandome at the 29th percentile, close to its 27th-percentile risk score.
Plandome's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Plandome's 530 counted buildings, 52.8% carry Direct exposure and only 47.2% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Plandome against the rest of the country
Plandome's 57th-percentile standing inside New York outpaces its 27th 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, Plandome ranks 22,892 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,867 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 555 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Plandome
At the 27th national percentile, Plandome 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
Plandome's 52.8% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 530 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Plandome. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Plandome, see the exposure-zones guide.