South Floral Park, NY
How exposed is South Floral Park to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, South Floral Park lands at the 10th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 426 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 South Floral Park at the 18th percentile, close to its 10th-percentile risk score.
Where South Floral Park's buildings actually sit
Only 0% of South Floral Park's 426 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 100% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
South Floral Park against the rest of the country
South Floral Park scores 10th nationally and 24th 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, South Floral Park ranks 28,246 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,734 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 978 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
South Floral Park and the insurance market
At the 10th national percentile, South Floral Park rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
South Floral Park's 100% 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 Floral Park's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 426 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for South Floral Park. The exposure-zones guide covers what South Floral Park's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.