Port Washington, NY
How exposed is Port Washington to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Port Washington at the 29th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 5,527 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Port Washington at the 30th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Port Washington's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Port Washington (64.2% of 5,527 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 19.2% sit in the Direct zone. At 5,527 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Port Washington ranks
Port Washington's 62nd-percentile standing inside New York outpaces its 29th 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, Port Washington ranks 22,285 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,115 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 494 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Port Washington and the insurance market
Port Washington's moderate rating (29th 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 Port Washington
Port Washington's 64.2% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 5,527 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Port Washington. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Port Washington, see the exposure-zones guide.