Ogdensburg, NJ
Ogdensburg wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Ogdensburg at the 44th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 986 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 Ogdensburg at the 43rd percentile, close to its 44th-percentile risk score.
Ogdensburg's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Ogdensburg's 986 counted buildings, 58.3% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Ogdensburg compares
There's little gap between Ogdensburg's 44th national percentile and its 48th 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, Ogdensburg ranks 17,806 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,035 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Jersey alone, it ranks 367 of 700 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Jersey on its state page.
Ogdensburg and the insurance market
Ogdensburg's elevated wildfire rating (44th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Ogdensburg
With 58.3% of Ogdensburg 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 Ogdensburg's 17,806-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Ogdensburg, see the exposure-zones guide.