Holiday Heights, NJ
Holiday Heights, NJ's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Holiday Heights sits at the 97th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,434 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Holiday Heights at the 96th percentile, close to its 97th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Holiday Heights's buildings (96.9%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Holiday Heights compares
There's little gap between Holiday Heights's 97th national percentile and its 100th 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, Holiday Heights ranks 823 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,460 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Jersey alone, it ranks 1 of 700 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Jersey on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Holiday Heights
At the 97th percentile nationally, Holiday Heights carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Hardening a home in Holiday Heights
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Holiday Heights (96.9% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Holiday Heights's 823-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Holiday Heights, see the exposure-zones guide.