Applewold, PA
Applewold, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Applewold's 112 buildings earn a 32nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Applewold at the 32nd national percentile — 0 points above 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 100% of Applewold's 112 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 0% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Applewold against the rest of the country
Applewold's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (42nd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (32nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Applewold ranks 21,596 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,559 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,163 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Applewold and the insurance market
Applewold's moderate rating (32nd 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 Applewold
Applewold's 100% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Applewold's 21,596-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Applewold, see the exposure-zones guide.