Sagaponack, NY
How exposed is Sagaponack to wildfire?
USFS scores Sagaponack at the 37th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 1,426 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Sagaponack at the 34th percentile, close to its 37th-percentile risk score.
Where Sagaponack's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Sagaponack: 62.6% of its 1,426 buildings, versus 12.4% Indirect and 25% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Sagaponack compares
Within New York, Sagaponack ranks higher (79th percentile) than it does nationally (37th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sagaponack ranks 19,982 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,498 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 275 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Sagaponack and the insurance market
At the 37th national percentile, Sagaponack rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Sagaponack
Sagaponack's 62.6% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Sagaponack's 19,982-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Sagaponack, see the exposure-zones guide.