Gibbsboro, NJ
Gibbsboro, NJ's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Gibbsboro lands at the 53rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 989 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Gibbsboro at the 54th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 52.5% of Gibbsboro's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 47.5% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Gibbsboro compares
Gibbsboro's risk sits at a similar level relative to New Jersey (62nd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (53rd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Gibbsboro ranks 14,722 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,016 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Jersey alone, it ranks 269 of 700 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Jersey on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Gibbsboro
Gibbsboro's elevated wildfire rating (53rd 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
With 52.5% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Gibbsboro gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Gibbsboro's 14,722-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Gibbsboro, see the exposure-zones guide.