Ardmore, PA
How exposed is Ardmore to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Ardmore at the 17th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 3,729 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Ardmore at the 17th percentile, close to its 17th-percentile risk score.
Ardmore's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Ardmore's buildings (85.8% of 3,729) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
How Ardmore compares
There's little gap between Ardmore's 17th national percentile and its 17th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ardmore ranks 26,229 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,494 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,645 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Ardmore
Ardmore's low wildfire rating (17th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Ardmore
Ardmore's 85.8% 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.
Where Ardmore's figures come from
Ardmore's 17th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Ardmore's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.