Palisades Park, NJ
How exposed is Palisades Park to wildfire?
Palisades Park sits at the 14th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 3,064 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Palisades Park's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 15th percentile nationally.
Palisades Park's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 0.3% of Palisades Park's 3,064 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 99.7% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Palisades Park against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Palisades Park's 14th national percentile and its 1st 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, Palisades Park ranks 27,013 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,336 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Jersey alone, it ranks 693 of 700 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Jersey on its state page.
Palisades Park and the insurance market
At the 14th national percentile, Palisades Park rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 99.7% of Palisades Park outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where Palisades Park's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Palisades Park's 27,013-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Palisades Park's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.