Ambler, PA
How exposed is Ambler to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Ambler at the 18th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 1,733 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Ambler's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 18th percentile nationally.
Ambler's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 91.7% of Ambler's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 8.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Ambler against the rest of the country
Ambler's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (19th 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, Ambler ranks 25,951 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,292 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,621 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Ambler and the insurance market
Ambler'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.
Hardening a home in Ambler
Ambler's 91.7% 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
Ambler'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 Ambler, see the exposure-zones guide.