Kendall Park, NJ
Kendall Park wildfire risk explained
Kendall Park's 3,235 buildings earn a 36th-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.)
Separately from the risk score above, Kendall Park's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 36th percentile nationally.
Where Kendall Park's buildings actually sit
Most of Kendall Park's buildings (57.3%) 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.
Where Kendall Park ranks
Kendall Park's risk sits at a similar level relative to New Jersey (36th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (36th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kendall Park ranks 20,076 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,126 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Jersey alone, it ranks 446 of 700 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Jersey on its state page.
Kendall Park and the insurance market
Kendall Park's moderate rating (36th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Kendall Park
Because 57.3% of Kendall Park's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 3,235 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Kendall Park. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Kendall Park, see the exposure-zones guide.