Seneca Knolls, NY
Seneca Knolls wildfire risk explained
Seneca Knolls sits at the 7th 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 997 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Seneca Knolls's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 7th percentile nationally.
Where Seneca Knolls's buildings actually sit
Only 30% of Seneca Knolls's 997 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 70% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Seneca Knolls against the rest of the country
Seneca Knolls scores 7th nationally and 11th within New York — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Seneca Knolls ranks 29,477 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,957 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,150 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Seneca Knolls and the insurance market
Seneca Knolls's low rating (7th 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 Seneca Knolls
Seneca Knolls's 70% 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.
More on how this number was built
Seneca Knolls's 7th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Seneca Knolls, see the exposure-zones guide.