Guttenberg, NJ
Guttenberg wildfire risk explained
Guttenberg's 1,192 buildings earn a 26th-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.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Guttenberg at the 28th percentile, close to its 26th-percentile risk score.
Where Guttenberg's buildings actually sit
Guttenberg rates 100% Minimal exposure against just 0% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 1,192 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Guttenberg ranks
There's little gap between Guttenberg's 26th national percentile and its 18th 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, Guttenberg ranks 23,390 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,697 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Jersey alone, it ranks 578 of 700 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Jersey on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Guttenberg
Guttenberg'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.
Hardening a home in Guttenberg
Guttenberg's 100% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Guttenberg's 23,390-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Guttenberg, see the exposure-zones guide.