Leisure Village West, NJ
Leisure Village West, NJ's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Leisure Village West at the 88th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 1,181 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Leisure Village West at the 84th national percentile — 4 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Leisure Village West's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 94.7% of Leisure Village West's 1,181 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 5.3% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Leisure Village West compares
Leisure Village West scores 88th nationally and 94th within New Jersey — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Leisure Village West ranks 3,879 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,759 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Jersey alone, it ranks 45 of 700 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Jersey on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Leisure Village West
At the 88th percentile nationally, Leisure Village West 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Leisure Village West's 94.7% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Leisure Village West's figures come from
Leisure Village West's 88th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Leisure Village West's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.