Berwyn, PA
How exposed is Berwyn to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Berwyn lands at the 17th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 1,426 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Berwyn at the 16th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Berwyn's building exposure, zone by zone
62.4% of Berwyn's 1,426 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 890 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 37.6% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Berwyn against the rest of the country
Berwyn scores 17th nationally and 17th within Pennsylvania — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Berwyn ranks 26,199 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,499 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,640 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Berwyn
At the 17th national percentile, Berwyn rates low 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
Berwyn's 62.4% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Berwyn's 26,199-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Berwyn, see the exposure-zones guide.