Ringwood, NJ
Ringwood, NJ's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Ringwood at the 50th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 4,739 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Ringwood's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 48th percentile nationally.
Ringwood's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Ringwood's 4,739 counted buildings, 92.7% carry Direct exposure and only 0.7% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Ringwood ranks
Ringwood's risk sits at a similar level relative to New Jersey (56th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (50th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ringwood ranks 15,820 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,600 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Jersey alone, it ranks 309 of 700 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Jersey on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Ringwood
At the 50th national percentile, Ringwood rates elevated 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
Ringwood's 92.7% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Ringwood's 15,820-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Ringwood, see the exposure-zones guide.