Blackwells Mills, NJ
How exposed is Blackwells Mills to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Blackwells Mills at the 34th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 3,291 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 Blackwells Mills at the 34th percentile, close to its 34th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 78% of Blackwells Mills's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 5.3% Indirect share and far above its 16.7% Minimal share — a profile where 2,567 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Blackwells Mills ranks
Blackwells Mills's risk sits at a similar level relative to New Jersey (33rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (34th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Blackwells Mills ranks 20,927 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,063 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Jersey alone, it ranks 473 of 700 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Jersey on its state page.
Blackwells Mills and the insurance market
At the 34th national percentile, Blackwells Mills rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Blackwells Mills
With 78% of Blackwells Mills 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 Blackwells Mills's 20,927-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Blackwells Mills, see the exposure-zones guide.