Thousand Island Park, NY
Thousand Island Park wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Thousand Island Park lands at the 7th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 326 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Thousand Island Park at the 7th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Thousand Island Park's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 79.1% of Thousand Island Park's 326 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 14.1% Direct and 6.8% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Thousand Island Park ranks
Thousand Island Park scores 7th nationally and 13th 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, Thousand Island Park ranks 29,356 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,926 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,128 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
At the 7th national percentile, Thousand Island 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.
Hardening a home in Thousand Island Park
Thousand Island Park's 79.1% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 326 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Thousand Island Park. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Thousand Island Park, see the exposure-zones guide.