National Park, NJ
National Park wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts National Park at the 53rd national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 1,230 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 National Park at the 53rd percentile, close to its 53rd-percentile risk score.
Where National Park's buildings actually sit
Only 8.5% of National Park's 1,230 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 91.5% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where National Park ranks
There's little gap between National Park's 53rd national percentile and its 61st 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, National Park ranks 14,882 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,472 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Jersey alone, it ranks 272 of 700 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Jersey on its state page.
National Park and the insurance market
National Park's elevated rating (53rd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
National Park's 91.5% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind National Park's 14,882-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond National Park, see the exposure-zones guide.