Cranford, NJ
Cranford, NJ's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Cranford at the 21st national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 588 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Cranford at the 22nd percentile, close to its 21st-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Cranford rates 91.3% Minimal exposure against just 8.7% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 588 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Cranford against the rest of the country
Cranford's risk sits at a similar level relative to New Jersey (7th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (21st) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cranford ranks 24,934 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,991 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Jersey alone, it ranks 652 of 700 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Jersey on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Cranford
Cranford's moderate wildfire rating (21st 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.
Hardening a home in Cranford
Cranford's 91.3% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 588 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Cranford. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Cranford, see the exposure-zones guide.