West Hills, NY
How exposed is West Hills to wildfire?
West Hills's 2,526 buildings earn a 31st-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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks West Hills at the 31st national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
West Hills's building exposure, zone by zone
61.6% of West Hills's 2,526 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 1,555 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 38.2% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0.3% are Minimal.
West Hills against the rest of the country
Within New York, West Hills ranks higher (66th percentile) than it does nationally (31st) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, West Hills ranks 21,812 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,254 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 442 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 Hills
At the 31st national percentile, West Hills rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
West Hills's 61.6% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind West Hills's 21,812-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond West Hills, see the exposure-zones guide.