Rockville Centre, NY
Rockville Centre, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Rockville Centre at the 26th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 7,399 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Rockville Centre's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 30th percentile nationally.
Where Rockville Centre's buildings actually sit
Only 4.3% of Rockville Centre's 7,399 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 95.7% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 7,399 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Rockville Centre compares
Compare Rockville Centre's two percentiles: 55th within New York, only 26th nationally — a gap of 28 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rockville Centre ranks 23,204 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,304 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 583 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Rockville Centre and the insurance market
Rockville Centre's moderate rating (26th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 95.7% of Rockville Centre outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 7,399 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Rockville Centre. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Rockville Centre, see the exposure-zones guide.