Cliffside Park, NJ
Cliffside Park, NJ's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Cliffside Park's 4,041 buildings earn a 16th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Cliffside Park at the 17th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Cliffside Park's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 99.9% of Cliffside Park's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 0.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Cliffside Park compares
There's little gap between Cliffside Park's 16th national percentile and its 2nd 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, Cliffside Park ranks 26,383 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,199 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Jersey alone, it ranks 685 of 700 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Jersey on its state page.
Cliffside Park and the insurance market
At the 16th national percentile, Cliffside Park rates low 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
Even with 99.9% of Cliffside Park outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where Cliffside Park's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 4,041 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Cliffside Park. The exposure-zones guide covers what Cliffside Park's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.