Bordentown, NJ
How exposed is Bordentown to wildfire?
Bordentown's 1,329 buildings earn a 60th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Bordentown at the 59th percentile, close to its 60th-percentile risk score.
Bordentown's building exposure, zone by zone
Bordentown rates 91.1% Minimal exposure against just 9% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 1,329 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Bordentown ranks
Bordentown's risk sits at a similar level relative to New Jersey (69th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (60th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bordentown ranks 12,740 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,936 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Jersey alone, it ranks 218 of 700 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Jersey on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Bordentown's elevated wildfire rating (60th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Bordentown
With 91.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Bordentown 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 Bordentown's 12,740-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Bordentown, see the exposure-zones guide.