Bridgeville, DE
Bridgeville wildfire risk explained
Bridgeville's 1,460 buildings earn a 37th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Bridgeville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 38th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Bridgeville rates 89.5% Minimal exposure against just 10.5% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 1,460 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Bridgeville against the rest of the country
Bridgeville scores 37th nationally and 36th within Delaware — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bridgeville ranks 19,721 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,353 by building count (1 is largest). Within Delaware alone, it ranks 51 of 79 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Delaware on its state page.
Bridgeville and the insurance market
Bridgeville's moderate wildfire rating (37th 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
Even with 89.5% of Bridgeville outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where Bridgeville's figures come from
Bridgeville's 37th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Bridgeville's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.