Pedricktown, NJ
How exposed is Pedricktown to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Pedricktown at the 52nd national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 321 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Pedricktown at the 51st national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
69.8% of Pedricktown's 321 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 30.2% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Pedricktown against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Pedricktown's 52nd national percentile and its 60th 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, Pedricktown ranks 15,072 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,064 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Jersey alone, it ranks 280 of 700 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Jersey on its state page.
Pedricktown and the insurance market
At the 52nd national percentile, Pedricktown 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 Pedricktown
Even with 69.8% of Pedricktown 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.
More on how this number was built
Pedricktown's 52nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Pedricktown, see the exposure-zones guide.