Sand Ridge, NY
Sand Ridge, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Sand Ridge's 594 buildings earn a 11th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Sand Ridge at the 11th percentile, close to its 11th-percentile risk score.
Where Sand Ridge's buildings actually sit
95.8% of Sand Ridge's 594 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 569 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 4.2% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
How Sand Ridge compares
Sand Ridge's 28th-percentile standing inside New York outpaces its 11th 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, Sand Ridge ranks 27,933 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,916 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 933 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Sand Ridge and the insurance market
Sand Ridge's low wildfire rating (11th 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.
Hardening a home in Sand Ridge
With 95.8% of Sand Ridge in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Sand Ridge's 11th-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 Sand Ridge, see the exposure-zones guide.