Weston Mills, NY
How exposed is Weston Mills to wildfire?
USFS scores Weston Mills at the 11th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 1,152 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Weston Mills at the 11th percentile, close to its 11th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Weston Mills's 1,152 counted buildings, 87.2% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Weston Mills against the rest of the country
Within New York, Weston Mills ranks higher (26th percentile) than it does nationally (11th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Weston Mills ranks 28,061 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,945 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 953 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 11th national percentile, Weston Mills rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Weston Mills (87.2%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Weston Mills's 28,061-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Weston Mills, see the exposure-zones guide.