Salt Point, NY
Salt Point wildfire risk explained
Salt Point's 132 buildings earn a 37th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Salt Point's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 37th percentile nationally.
Where Salt Point's buildings actually sit
Of Salt Point's 132 counted buildings, 53.8% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Salt Point compares
Salt Point's 80th-percentile standing inside New York outpaces its 37th 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, Salt Point ranks 19,859 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,635 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 262 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Salt Point and the insurance market
Salt Point's moderate wildfire rating (37th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Salt Point's 53.8% 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
Salt Point's 37th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Salt Point, see the exposure-zones guide.