East Newark, NJ
East Newark wildfire risk explained
USFS scores East Newark at the 21st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 413 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, East Newark's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 21st percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 0% of East Newark's 413 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 100% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
East Newark against the rest of the country
There's little gap between East Newark's 21st national percentile and its 6th 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, East Newark ranks 25,065 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,970 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Jersey alone, it ranks 656 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
East Newark'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.
What would actually reduce this score
East Newark's 100% 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 413 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for East Newark. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond East Newark, see the exposure-zones guide.