Shinnecock Hills, NY
How exposed is Shinnecock Hills to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Shinnecock Hills lands at the 37th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 1,728 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Shinnecock Hills at the 37th percentile, close to its 37th-percentile risk score.
Shinnecock Hills's building exposure, zone by zone
73.3% of Shinnecock Hills's 1,728 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 26.7% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Shinnecock Hills compares
Within New York, Shinnecock Hills ranks higher (80th 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, Shinnecock Hills ranks 19,764 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,314 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 254 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Shinnecock Hills
Shinnecock Hills's moderate rating (37th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 73.3% of Shinnecock Hills outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Shinnecock Hills's 19,764-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Shinnecock Hills, see the exposure-zones guide.