Glassboro, NJ
Glassboro, NJ's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Glassboro lands at the 60th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 5,934 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 Glassboro at the 60th percentile, close to its 60th-percentile risk score.
Where Glassboro's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 38.3% of Glassboro's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 29.1% Direct and 32.6% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 5,934 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Glassboro ranks
Glassboro scores 60th nationally and 69th 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, Glassboro ranks 12,770 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,906 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Jersey alone, it ranks 220 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
Glassboro's elevated wildfire rating (60th 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 38.3% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Glassboro 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
Glassboro's 60th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Glassboro, see the exposure-zones guide.