Brookdale, NJ
Brookdale wildfire risk explained
Brookdale sits at the 25th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 3,402 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Brookdale at the 27th percentile, close to its 25th-percentile risk score.
Where Brookdale's buildings actually sit
Only 6.5% of Brookdale's 3,402 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 93.5% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Brookdale against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Brookdale's 25th national percentile and its 17th 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, Brookdale ranks 23,546 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,916 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Jersey alone, it ranks 585 of 700 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Jersey on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Brookdale
At the 25th national percentile, Brookdale rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 93.5% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Brookdale gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Brookdale's figures come from
Brookdale's 25th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Brookdale's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.