Boyertown, PA
Boyertown, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Boyertown sits at the 15th 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 1,234 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Boyertown at the 13th percentile, close to its 15th-percentile risk score.
Boyertown's building exposure, zone by zone
1,234 buildings are counted in Boyertown, and 91.8% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 8.2% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Where Boyertown ranks
Boyertown scores 15th nationally and 14th 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, Boyertown ranks 26,924 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,447 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,710 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Boyertown and the insurance market
Boyertown's low rating (15th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 91.8% of Boyertown'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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,234 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Boyertown. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Boyertown, see the exposure-zones guide.