Syosset, NY
Syosset, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Syosset at the 34th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 6,628 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Syosset at the 34th percentile, close to its 34th-percentile risk score.
Syosset's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 84.2% of Syosset's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 11.8% Direct and 3.9% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 6,628 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Syosset ranks
Syosset's 73rd-percentile standing inside New York outpaces its 34th 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, Syosset ranks 20,804 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,611 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 345 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Syosset's moderate wildfire rating (34th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 84.2% of Syosset 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
Syosset's 34th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Syosset, see the exposure-zones guide.