Birdsboro, PA
How exposed is Birdsboro to wildfire?
Birdsboro sits at the 17th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,665 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Birdsboro's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 15th percentile nationally.
Birdsboro's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Birdsboro's buildings (84.5%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Birdsboro compares
Birdsboro scores 17th nationally and 18th 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, Birdsboro ranks 26,077 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,543 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,630 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Birdsboro and the insurance market
Birdsboro'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.
What would actually reduce this score
Birdsboro's 84.5% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Birdsboro's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Birdsboro's 26,077-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Birdsboro's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.