Bradford Woods, PA
Bradford Woods wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Bradford Woods at the 30th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 533 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Bradford Woods's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 30th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Bradford Woods's 533 counted buildings, 94.6% carry Direct exposure and only 0.6% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Bradford Woods against the rest of the country
Bradford Woods scores 30th nationally and 37th 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, Bradford Woods ranks 22,200 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,829 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,246 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Bradford Woods and the insurance market
Bradford Woods's moderate wildfire rating (30th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Bradford Woods's 94.6% 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 Bradford Woods's 22,200-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Bradford Woods, see the exposure-zones guide.