Southold, NY
Southold, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Southold lands at the 36th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 5,319 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 Southold at the 35th percentile, close to its 36th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 48.9% of Southold's 5,319 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0.1% carry Indirect; the remaining 51.1% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 5,319 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Southold ranks
Within New York, Southold ranks higher (77th percentile) than it does nationally (36th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Southold ranks 20,208 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,247 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 295 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Southold
At the 36th national percentile, Southold rates moderate 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 Southold
With 51.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Southold gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Southold's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Southold's 20,208-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Southold's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.