Rahway, NJ
How exposed is Rahway to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Rahway at the 22nd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 8,366 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Rahway at the 24th percentile, close to its 22nd-percentile risk score.
Where Rahway's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 97.4% of Rahway's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 2.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 8,366 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Rahway ranks
Rahway's risk sits at a similar level relative to New Jersey (8th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (22nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rahway ranks 24,716 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,989 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Jersey alone, it ranks 647 of 700 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Jersey on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Rahway
Rahway's moderate wildfire rating (22nd percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 97.4% of Rahway 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
Rahway's 22nd-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 Rahway, see the exposure-zones guide.