Newark, DE
Newark, DE's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Newark's 7,013 buildings earn a 29th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Newark at the 29th percentile, close to its 29th-percentile risk score.
Where Newark's buildings actually sit
Most of Newark's buildings (58.7%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone. At 7,013 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Newark compares
Newark's 29th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 14th ranking inside Delaware does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 15 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Newark ranks 22,243 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,456 by building count (1 is largest). Within Delaware alone, it ranks 68 of 79 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Delaware on its state page.
Newark and the insurance market
Newark's moderate rating (29th 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
Because 58.7% of Newark's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Newark's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 7,013 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Newark. The exposure-zones guide covers what Newark's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.