Long Branch, NJ
Long Branch, NJ's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Long Branch at the 50th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 8,004 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 Long Branch at the 54th percentile, close to its 50th-percentile risk score.
Where Long Branch's buildings actually sit
95.4% of Long Branch's 8,004 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 4.6% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 8,004 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Long Branch ranks
There's little gap between Long Branch's 50th national percentile and its 57th 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, Long Branch ranks 15,729 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,112 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Jersey alone, it ranks 304 of 700 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Jersey on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Long Branch
Long Branch's elevated wildfire rating (50th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Long Branch
With 95.4% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Long Branch gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 8,004 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Long Branch. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Long Branch, see the exposure-zones guide.