Sparkill, NY
How exposed is Sparkill to wildfire?
USFS scores Sparkill at the 32nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 541 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 Sparkill at the 31st percentile, close to its 32nd-percentile risk score.
Where Sparkill's buildings actually sit
541 buildings are counted in Sparkill, and 62.3% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 37.7% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Sparkill against the rest of the country
Compare Sparkill's two percentiles: 70th within New York, only 32nd nationally — a gap of 38 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sparkill ranks 21,308 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,703 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 387 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Sparkill
At the 32nd national percentile, Sparkill rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 62.3% of Sparkill's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Sparkill's 21,308-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Sparkill, see the exposure-zones guide.