Uniondale, NY
Uniondale, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Uniondale sits at the 22nd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 7,033 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Uniondale at the 27th percentile, close to its 22nd-percentile risk score.
Where Uniondale's buildings actually sit
Uniondale rates 99% Minimal exposure against just 1% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 7,033 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 7,033 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Uniondale compares
Within New York, Uniondale ranks higher (47th percentile) than it does nationally (22nd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Uniondale ranks 24,655 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,437 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 681 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Uniondale
Uniondale's moderate wildfire rating (22nd 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
Uniondale's 99% 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 Uniondale's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 7,033 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Uniondale. The exposure-zones guide covers what Uniondale's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.