Brielle, NJ
Brielle wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Brielle at the 53rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 2,116 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Brielle's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 54th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Brielle rates 84.4% Minimal exposure against just 15.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 2,116 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Brielle ranks
There's little gap between Brielle's 53rd national percentile and its 62nd 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, Brielle ranks 14,692 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,149 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Jersey alone, it ranks 266 of 700 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Jersey on its state page.
Brielle and the insurance market
Brielle's elevated rating (53rd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 84.4% of Brielle outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Brielle's 14,692-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Brielle, see the exposure-zones guide.