Park Ridge, NJ
Park Ridge, NJ's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Park Ridge at the 23rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 2,961 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Park Ridge at the 23rd percentile, close to its 23rd-percentile risk score.
Park Ridge's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Park Ridge's 2,961 counted buildings, 53.4% carry Direct exposure and only 46.6% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Park Ridge ranks
There's little gap between Park Ridge's 23rd national percentile and its 9th 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, Park Ridge ranks 24,432 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,498 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Jersey alone, it ranks 637 of 700 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Jersey on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Park Ridge
Park Ridge's moderate rating (23rd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Park Ridge's 53.4% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,961 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Park Ridge. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Park Ridge, see the exposure-zones guide.