Carneys Point, NJ
Carneys Point wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Carneys Point lands at the 51st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 3,382 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Carneys Point at the 51st percentile, close to its 51st-percentile risk score.
Carneys Point's building exposure, zone by zone
78.2% of Carneys Point's 3,382 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 21.9% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Carneys Point compares
Carneys Point scores 51st nationally and 58th within New Jersey — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Carneys Point ranks 15,446 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,938 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Jersey alone, it ranks 295 of 700 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Jersey on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Carneys Point
Carneys Point's elevated wildfire rating (51st 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 78.2% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Carneys Point 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 Carneys Point's 15,446-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Carneys Point, see the exposure-zones guide.