Leisure Village, NJ
Leisure Village wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Leisure Village at the 67th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 1,202 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Leisure Village's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 65th percentile nationally.
Where Leisure Village's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 83.9% of Leisure Village's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 16.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Leisure Village against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Leisure Village's 67th national percentile and its 76th 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, Leisure Village ranks 10,434 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,640 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Jersey alone, it ranks 167 of 700 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Jersey on its state page.
Leisure Village and the insurance market
At the 67th percentile nationally, Leisure Village carries the 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Leisure Village's 83.9% 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 Leisure Village's 10,434-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Leisure Village, see the exposure-zones guide.