Valley Stream, NY
How exposed is Valley Stream to wildfire?
Valley Stream sits at the 40th 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 11,946 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 Valley Stream at the 38th percentile, close to its 40th-percentile risk score.
Where Valley Stream's buildings actually sit
Most of Valley Stream's buildings (99.7% of 11,946) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure. At 11,946 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Valley Stream compares
Within New York, Valley Stream ranks higher (84th percentile) than it does nationally (40th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Valley Stream ranks 19,074 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,305 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 211 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Valley Stream and the insurance market
Valley Stream's moderate rating (40th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Valley Stream's 99.7% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Valley Stream's 19,074-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Valley Stream, see the exposure-zones guide.