The Hills, NJ
The Hills, NJ's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
The Hills sits at the 36th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,942 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks The Hills at the 35th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 72.5% of The Hills's 1,942 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 27.5% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where The Hills ranks
The Hills's risk sits at a similar level relative to New Jersey (36th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (36th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, The Hills ranks 20,175 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,641 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Jersey alone, it ranks 450 of 700 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Jersey on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in The Hills
At the 36th national percentile, The Hills 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 ember exposure the dominant pattern in The Hills (72.5% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,942 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for The Hills. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond The Hills, see the exposure-zones guide.