Byram Center, NJ
Byram Center, NJ's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Byram Center sits at the 36th 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 958 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Byram Center at the 34th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Byram Center's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 78.3% of Byram Center's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 21.7% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 750 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Byram Center ranks
Byram Center's risk sits at a similar level relative to New Jersey (37th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (36th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Byram Center ranks 20,045 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,244 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Jersey alone, it ranks 444 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
Byram Center's moderate rating (36th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Byram Center
With 78.3% of Byram Center 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 Byram Center's 20,045-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Byram Center, see the exposure-zones guide.