Mount Tabor, NJ
How exposed is Mount Tabor to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Mount Tabor at the 25th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 528 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Mount Tabor at the 25th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Mount Tabor's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 52.5% of Mount Tabor's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 47.5% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Mount Tabor ranks
There's little gap between Mount Tabor's 25th national percentile and its 16th 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, Mount Tabor ranks 23,698 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,897 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Jersey alone, it ranks 592 of 700 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Jersey on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mount Tabor
Mount Tabor's moderate rating (25th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 52.5% of Mount Tabor outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where Mount Tabor's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 528 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Mount Tabor. The exposure-zones guide covers what Mount Tabor's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.