Mauricetown, NJ
How exposed is Mauricetown to wildfire?
Mauricetown's 333 buildings earn a 80th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Mauricetown at the 77th national percentile — 3 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Mauricetown's building exposure, zone by zone
333 buildings are counted in Mauricetown, and 78.4% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0.6% rated Minimal.
Where Mauricetown ranks
There's little gap between Mauricetown's 80th national percentile and its 85th 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, Mauricetown ranks 6,212 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,735 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Jersey alone, it ranks 103 of 700 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Jersey on its state page.
Mauricetown and the insurance market
Mauricetown's very high rating (80th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Mauricetown
Mauricetown's 78.4% 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 333 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Mauricetown. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Mauricetown, see the exposure-zones guide.