Newfield, NJ
How exposed is Newfield to wildfire?
Newfield sits at the 63rd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 880 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Newfield at the 63rd national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Newfield's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Newfield: 66.9% of its 880 buildings, versus 31.9% Indirect and 1.1% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Newfield ranks
Newfield's risk sits at a similar level relative to New Jersey (72nd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (63rd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Newfield ranks 11,671 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,911 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Jersey alone, it ranks 194 of 700 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Jersey on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Newfield
Newfield's 63rd-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Newfield's 66.9% 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.
Where Newfield's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Newfield's 11,671-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Newfield's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.