Bowmansville, PA
How exposed is Bowmansville to wildfire?
USFS scores Bowmansville at the 11th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 1,171 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Bowmansville at the 10th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Bowmansville's building exposure, zone by zone
1,171 buildings are counted in Bowmansville, and 58.1% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 9.7% rated Minimal.
Bowmansville against the rest of the country
Bowmansville scores 11th nationally and 9th 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, Bowmansville ranks 28,064 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,825 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,805 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Bowmansville
At the 11th national percentile, Bowmansville rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Bowmansville (58.1%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Bowmansville's 28,064-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Bowmansville, see the exposure-zones guide.