South Farmingdale, NY
How exposed is South Farmingdale to wildfire?
USFS scores South Farmingdale at the 26th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 4,961 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts South Farmingdale at the 32nd percentile, close to its 26th-percentile risk score.
South Farmingdale's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 0.6% of South Farmingdale's 4,961 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 99.4% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where South Farmingdale ranks
South Farmingdale's 55th-percentile standing inside New York outpaces its 26th 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, South Farmingdale ranks 23,238 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,457 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 585 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in South Farmingdale
South Farmingdale's moderate wildfire rating (26th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
South Farmingdale's 99.4% 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.
Where South Farmingdale's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind South Farmingdale's 23,238-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what South Farmingdale's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.