Roslyn Heights, NY
Roslyn Heights, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Roslyn Heights at the 31st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 2,291 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Roslyn Heights at the 33rd national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Roslyn Heights's building exposure, zone by zone
89.4% of Roslyn Heights's 2,291 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 10.6% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Roslyn Heights compares
Roslyn Heights's 66th-percentile standing inside New York outpaces its 31st 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, Roslyn Heights ranks 21,747 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,722 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 436 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Roslyn Heights
Roslyn Heights's moderate rating (31st 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 Roslyn Heights
Roslyn Heights's 89.4% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Roslyn Heights's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Roslyn Heights's 21,747-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Roslyn Heights's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.