Springfield, NJ
Springfield, NJ's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Springfield at the 31st national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 504 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Springfield's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 31st percentile nationally.
Springfield's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 9.9% of Springfield's 504 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 90.1% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Springfield ranks
There's little gap between Springfield's 31st national percentile and its 26th 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, Springfield ranks 21,872 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,269 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Jersey alone, it ranks 516 of 700 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Jersey on its state page.
Springfield and the insurance market
At the 31st national percentile, Springfield 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
With 90.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Springfield gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Springfield's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Springfield's 21,872-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Springfield's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.