Franklin Park, NJ
Franklin Park, NJ's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Franklin Park's 1,327 buildings earn a 35th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Franklin Park's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 36th percentile nationally.
Franklin Park's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Franklin Park (69.2% of 1,327 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 30.8% sit in the Direct zone.
How Franklin Park compares
There's little gap between Franklin Park's 35th national percentile and its 35th 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, Franklin Park ranks 20,359 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,948 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Jersey alone, it ranks 454 of 700 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Jersey on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Franklin Park
Franklin Park's moderate rating (35th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Franklin Park (69.2% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,327 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Franklin Park. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Franklin Park, see the exposure-zones guide.