Bellwood, PA
Bellwood, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Bellwood at the 47th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 886 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Bellwood at the 46th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Bellwood's building exposure, zone by zone
886 buildings are counted in Bellwood, and 97.3% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 2.7% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Where Bellwood ranks
Compare Bellwood's two percentiles: 76th within Pennsylvania, only 47th nationally — a gap of 29 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bellwood ranks 16,682 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,848 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 476 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Bellwood and the insurance market
At the 47th national percentile, Bellwood rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Bellwood (97.3% 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 Bellwood's 16,682-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Bellwood, see the exposure-zones guide.