Sandy Creek, NY
Sandy Creek, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Sandy Creek sits at the 9th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 473 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Sandy Creek at the 10th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Sandy Creek's 473 counted buildings, 72.3% 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 Sandy Creek compares
There's little gap between Sandy Creek's 9th national percentile and its 21st percentile inside New York, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sandy Creek ranks 28,625 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,829 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,020 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Sandy Creek
At the 9th national percentile, Sandy Creek rates low 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 Sandy Creek
Sandy Creek's 72.3% 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 Sandy Creek's 28,625-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Sandy Creek, see the exposure-zones guide.