Egg Harbor City, NJ
Egg Harbor City, NJ's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Egg Harbor City lands at the 91st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 1,861 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 Egg Harbor City at the 89th percentile, close to its 91st-percentile risk score.
Where Egg Harbor City's buildings actually sit
80.4% of Egg Harbor City's 1,861 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 19.6% Direct and 0.1% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Egg Harbor City against the rest of the country
Egg Harbor City's risk sits at a similar level relative to New Jersey (96th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (91st) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Egg Harbor City ranks 2,957 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,881 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Jersey alone, it ranks 29 of 700 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Jersey on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Egg Harbor City
Egg Harbor City's very high rating (91st percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Egg Harbor City's 80.4% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Egg Harbor City's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Egg Harbor City's 2,957-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Egg Harbor City's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.