Glen Ridge, NJ
Glen Ridge, NJ's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Glen Ridge sits at the 26th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 2,606 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Glen Ridge at the 28th 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 69.3% of Glen Ridge's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 30.7% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Glen Ridge ranks
There's little gap between Glen Ridge's 26th national percentile and its 19th 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, Glen Ridge ranks 23,199 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,084 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Jersey alone, it ranks 566 of 700 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Jersey on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Glen Ridge
Glen Ridge's moderate wildfire rating (26th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 69.3% of Glen Ridge outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Glen Ridge's 23,199-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Glen Ridge, see the exposure-zones guide.