Arcadia University, PA
How exposed is Arcadia University to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Arcadia University lands at the 14th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 36 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Arcadia University at the 16th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Arcadia University's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 86.1% of Arcadia University's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 13.9% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Arcadia University compares
There's little gap between Arcadia University's 14th national percentile and its 13th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Arcadia University ranks 27,080 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,259 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,727 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Arcadia University
Arcadia University's low rating (14th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 86.1% of Arcadia University outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Arcadia University's 27,080-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Arcadia University, see the exposure-zones guide.