Cedar Glen West, NJ
Cedar Glen West, NJ's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Cedar Glen West at the 84th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 485 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (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 West at the 82nd percentile, close to its 84th-percentile risk score.
Cedar Glen West's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Cedar Glen West (68.7% of 485 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 31.3% sit in the Direct zone.
Where Cedar Glen West ranks
Cedar Glen West scores 84th nationally and 88th 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, Cedar Glen West ranks 5,043 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,615 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Jersey alone, it ranks 84 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
Cedar Glen West's 84th-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Cedar Glen West (68.7% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Cedar Glen West's 5,043-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 West, see the exposure-zones guide.