Ocean View, NJ
Ocean View, NJ's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Ocean View's 634 buildings earn a 78th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Ocean View's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 73rd percentile nationally.
Ocean View's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Ocean View's 634 counted buildings, 62.5% carry Direct exposure and only 0.2% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Ocean View ranks
Ocean View's risk sits at a similar level relative to New Jersey (84th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (78th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ocean View ranks 7,002 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,423 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Jersey alone, it ranks 113 of 700 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Jersey on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Ocean View
At the 78th percentile nationally, Ocean View carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 62.5% of Ocean View in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Ocean View's 7,002-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Ocean View, see the exposure-zones guide.