Prospect Park, NJ
Prospect Park wildfire risk explained
Prospect Park sits at the 18th 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 1,076 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Prospect Park's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 17th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Prospect Park's buildings (77.9%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Prospect Park against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Prospect Park's 18th national percentile and its 3rd 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, Prospect Park ranks 25,974 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,423 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Jersey alone, it ranks 679 of 700 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Jersey on its state page.
Prospect Park and the insurance market
At the 18th national percentile, Prospect 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.
Hardening a home in Prospect Park
Prospect Park's 77.9% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Prospect Park's 25,974-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Prospect Park, see the exposure-zones guide.