Woodmere, NY
How exposed is Woodmere to wildfire?
Woodmere sits at the 48th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 5,492 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Woodmere at the 44th national percentile — 4 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Woodmere's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 99.1% of Woodmere's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 0.9% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 5,492 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Woodmere against the rest of the country
Compare Woodmere's two percentiles: 92nd within New York, only 48th nationally — a gap of 44 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Woodmere ranks 16,552 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,142 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 108 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Woodmere and the insurance market
Woodmere's elevated rating (48th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 99.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Woodmere gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Woodmere's 16,552-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Woodmere, see the exposure-zones guide.