Absecon, NJ
How exposed is Absecon to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Absecon at the 85th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 3,196 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Absecon at the 78th percentile, close to its 85th-percentile risk score.
Absecon's building exposure, zone by zone
78.4% of Absecon's 3,196 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 19% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Where Absecon ranks
Absecon's risk sits at a similar level relative to New Jersey (89th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (85th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Absecon ranks 4,896 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,169 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Jersey alone, it ranks 79 of 700 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Jersey on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Absecon
At the 85th percentile nationally, Absecon carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
Absecon's 78.4% 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 Absecon's 4,896-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Absecon, see the exposure-zones guide.