Arlington Heights, PA
Arlington Heights, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Arlington Heights's 2,749 buildings earn a 42nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Arlington Heights at the 43rd national percentile — 1 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 60% of Arlington Heights's 2,749 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 40% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Arlington Heights against the rest of the country
Arlington Heights's 67th-percentile standing inside Pennsylvania outpaces its 42nd national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Arlington Heights ranks 18,232 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,852 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 647 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Arlington Heights and the insurance market
Arlington Heights's elevated wildfire rating (42nd 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 Arlington Heights
Because 60% of Arlington Heights's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Arlington Heights's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,749 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Arlington Heights. The exposure-zones guide covers what Arlington Heights's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.