Beesleys Point, NJ
Beesleys Point, NJ's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Beesleys Point at the 90th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 496 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Beesleys Point at the 85th national percentile — 5 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Beesleys Point's buildings actually sit
Most of Beesleys Point's buildings (81.5%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Where Beesleys Point ranks
Beesleys Point's risk sits at a similar level relative to New Jersey (95th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (90th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Beesleys Point ranks 3,124 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,424 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Jersey alone, it ranks 34 of 700 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Jersey on its state page.
Beesleys Point and the insurance market
Beesleys Point's very high rating (90th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 81.5% of Beesleys Point's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Beesleys Point's 90th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Beesleys Point, see the exposure-zones guide.