Teterboro, NJ
Teterboro wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Teterboro lands at the 18th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 169 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Teterboro at the 20th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Teterboro's building exposure, zone by zone
98.2% of Teterboro's 169 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 1.8% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Teterboro against the rest of the country
Teterboro's risk sits at a similar level relative to New Jersey (4th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (18th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Teterboro ranks 25,722 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,074 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Jersey alone, it ranks 673 of 700 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Jersey on its state page.
Teterboro and the insurance market
Teterboro's low rating (18th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Teterboro's 98.2% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Teterboro's 18th-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 Teterboro, see the exposure-zones guide.