Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Hasbrouck Heights wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Hasbrouck Heights lands at the 16th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 4,020 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 Hasbrouck Heights at the 19th percentile, close to its 16th-percentile risk score.
Hasbrouck Heights's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 98.4% of Hasbrouck Heights's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 1.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Hasbrouck Heights compares
Hasbrouck Heights's risk sits at a similar level relative to New Jersey (2nd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (16th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hasbrouck Heights ranks 26,575 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,231 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Jersey alone, it ranks 689 of 700 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Jersey on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Hasbrouck Heights
At the 16th national percentile, Hasbrouck Heights rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Hasbrouck Heights's 98.4% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 4,020 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Hasbrouck Heights. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Hasbrouck Heights, see the exposure-zones guide.