Dorothy, NJ
How exposed is Dorothy to wildfire?
Dorothy sits at the 89th 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 790 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 Dorothy at the 87th percentile, close to its 89th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
790 buildings are counted in Dorothy, and 98.4% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
How Dorothy compares
There's little gap between Dorothy's 89th national percentile and its 94th 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, Dorothy ranks 3,627 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,731 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Jersey alone, it ranks 43 of 700 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Jersey on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Dorothy
At the 89th percentile nationally, Dorothy carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Hardening a home in Dorothy
With 98.4% of Dorothy in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Dorothy's 89th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Dorothy, see the exposure-zones guide.