Oceanport, NJ
Oceanport, NJ's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Oceanport at the 51st national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 2,563 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 Oceanport at the 55th percentile, close to its 51st-percentile risk score.
Where Oceanport's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 92.1% of Oceanport's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 7.9% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Oceanport compares
There's little gap between Oceanport's 51st national percentile and its 58th 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, Oceanport ranks 15,319 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,174 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Jersey alone, it ranks 290 of 700 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Jersey on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 51st national percentile, Oceanport rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Oceanport
Oceanport's 92.1% 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 Oceanport's 15,319-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Oceanport, see the exposure-zones guide.