Port Norris, NJ
How exposed is Port Norris to wildfire?
Port Norris sits at the 79th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 805 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Port Norris at the 75th national percentile — 4 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
USFS classifies 54.4% of Port Norris's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 44.4% Indirect share and far above its 1.2% Minimal share — a profile where 438 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Port Norris compares
Port Norris scores 79th nationally and 85th 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, Port Norris ranks 6,624 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,591 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Jersey alone, it ranks 108 of 700 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Jersey on its state page.
Port Norris and the insurance market
Port Norris's 79th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
What would actually reduce this score
Port Norris's 54.4% 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.
Where Port Norris's figures come from
Port Norris's 79th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Port Norris's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.