Pompton Plains, NJ
Pompton Plains wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Pompton Plains lands at the 34th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 3,375 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Pompton Plains at the 33rd percentile, close to its 34th-percentile risk score.
Where Pompton Plains's buildings actually sit
Indirect exposure is dominant in Pompton Plains (55.4% of 3,375 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 29.1% sit in the Direct zone.
Pompton Plains against the rest of the country
Pompton Plains scores 34th nationally and 33rd within New Jersey — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pompton Plains ranks 20,828 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,948 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Jersey alone, it ranks 471 of 700 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Jersey on its state page.
Pompton Plains and the insurance market
At the 34th national percentile, Pompton Plains rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 55.4% of Pompton Plains's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pompton Plains's 20,828-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Pompton Plains, see the exposure-zones guide.