Norwood, NJ
How exposed is Norwood to wildfire?
Norwood's 1,833 buildings earn a 33rd-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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Norwood at the 31st national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Norwood: 53% of its 1,833 buildings, versus 4.2% Indirect and 42.9% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Norwood compares
Norwood scores 33rd nationally and 30th within New Jersey — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Norwood ranks 21,207 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,972 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Jersey alone, it ranks 490 of 700 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Jersey on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Norwood
Norwood's moderate rating (33rd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Norwood
Norwood's 53% 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
Norwood's 33rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Norwood, see the exposure-zones guide.