West Hampton Dunes, NY
West Hampton Dunes, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
West Hampton Dunes's 292 buildings earn a 38th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts West Hampton Dunes at the 32nd percentile, close to its 38th-percentile risk score.
Where West Hampton Dunes's buildings actually sit
Only 0% of West Hampton Dunes's 292 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 100% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
West Hampton Dunes against the rest of the country
West Hampton Dunes's 81st-percentile standing inside New York outpaces its 38th 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, West Hampton Dunes ranks 19,703 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,856 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 248 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in West Hampton Dunes
West Hampton Dunes's moderate wildfire rating (38th 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.
Hardening a home in West Hampton Dunes
West Hampton Dunes's 100% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 292 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for West Hampton Dunes. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond West Hampton Dunes, see the exposure-zones guide.