Beattystown, NJ
How exposed is Beattystown to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Beattystown at the 38th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 950 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Beattystown's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 36th percentile nationally.
Where Beattystown's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Beattystown: 65.4% of its 950 buildings, versus 34.6% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Beattystown against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Beattystown's 38th national percentile and its 39th percentile inside New Jersey, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Beattystown ranks 19,606 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,308 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Jersey alone, it ranks 425 of 700 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Jersey on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Beattystown
At the 38th national percentile, Beattystown 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
With 65.4% of Beattystown in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Beattystown's 19,606-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Beattystown, see the exposure-zones guide.