Lincoln Park, NJ
How exposed is Lincoln Park to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Lincoln Park at the 33rd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 3,417 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Lincoln Park at the 32nd percentile, close to its 33rd-percentile risk score.
Lincoln Park's building exposure, zone by zone
47.8% of Lincoln Park's 3,417 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 1,633 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 42.9% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 9.3% are Minimal.
How Lincoln Park compares
Lincoln Park scores 33rd nationally and 30th 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, Lincoln Park ranks 21,276 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,892 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Jersey alone, it ranks 492 of 700 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Jersey on its state page.
Lincoln Park and the insurance market
At the 33rd national percentile, Lincoln Park rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Lincoln Park
Lincoln Park's 47.8% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 3,417 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Lincoln Park. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Lincoln Park, see the exposure-zones guide.