Brittany Farms-The Highlands, PA
How exposed is Brittany Farms-The Highlands to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Brittany Farms-The Highlands lands at the 9th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 956 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Brittany Farms-The Highlands at the 9th percentile, close to its 9th-percentile risk score.
Brittany Farms-The Highlands's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 50.6% of Brittany Farms-The Highlands's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 47.4% Direct and 2% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Brittany Farms-The Highlands against the rest of the country
Brittany Farms-The Highlands's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (7th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (9th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brittany Farms-The Highlands ranks 28,567 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,267 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,845 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Brittany Farms-The Highlands's low wildfire rating (9th 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
With 50.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Brittany Farms-The Highlands gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 956 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Brittany Farms-The Highlands. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Brittany Farms-The Highlands, see the exposure-zones guide.