Upper Pohatcong, NJ
Upper Pohatcong wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Upper Pohatcong at the 11th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 880 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Upper Pohatcong at the 11th percentile, close to its 11th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Upper Pohatcong rates 79.7% Minimal exposure against just 20.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 880 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Upper Pohatcong against the rest of the country
Upper Pohatcong's risk sits at a similar level relative to New Jersey (0th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (11th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Upper Pohatcong ranks 28,021 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,912 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Jersey alone, it ranks 700 of 700 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Jersey on its state page.
Upper Pohatcong and the insurance market
At the 11th national percentile, Upper Pohatcong rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Upper Pohatcong
With 79.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Upper Pohatcong gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Upper Pohatcong's 28,021-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Upper Pohatcong, see the exposure-zones guide.