Amity Gardens, PA
Amity Gardens wildfire risk explained
Amity Gardens sits at the 12th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,168 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Amity Gardens's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 11th percentile nationally.
Amity Gardens's building exposure, zone by zone
69.8% of Amity Gardens's 1,168 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 30.2% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Amity Gardens against the rest of the country
Amity Gardens scores 12th nationally and 11th within Pennsylvania — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Amity Gardens ranks 27,618 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,850 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,775 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Amity Gardens and the insurance market
Amity Gardens's low rating (12th 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
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Amity Gardens (69.8% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Amity Gardens's 27,618-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Amity Gardens, see the exposure-zones guide.