Cedar Glen Lakes, NJ
Cedar Glen Lakes, NJ's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Cedar Glen Lakes sits at the 96th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 850 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 Cedar Glen Lakes at the 95th percentile, close to its 96th-percentile risk score.
Where Cedar Glen Lakes's buildings actually sit
86.8% of Cedar Glen Lakes's 850 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 13.2% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Cedar Glen Lakes against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Cedar Glen Lakes's 96th national percentile and its 99th 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, Cedar Glen Lakes ranks 1,235 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,158 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Jersey alone, it ranks 7 of 700 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Jersey on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Cedar Glen Lakes
Cedar Glen Lakes's 96th-percentile, very high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in Cedar Glen Lakes
Cedar Glen Lakes's 86.8% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Cedar Glen Lakes's 1,235-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Cedar Glen Lakes, see the exposure-zones guide.