East Orange, NJ
How exposed is East Orange to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, East Orange lands at the 21st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 10,010 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts East Orange at the 22nd percentile, close to its 21st-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
96.6% of East Orange's 10,010 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 3.4% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 10,010 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
East Orange against the rest of the country
East Orange scores 21st nationally and 7th 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, East Orange ranks 24,900 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,607 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Jersey alone, it ranks 651 of 700 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Jersey on its state page.
East Orange and the insurance market
At the 21st national percentile, East Orange rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With 96.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, East Orange gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where East Orange's figures come from
East Orange's 21st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what East Orange's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.