Brookhaven, PA
Brookhaven wildfire risk explained
Brookhaven's 2,543 buildings earn a 19th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Brookhaven's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 20th percentile nationally.
Brookhaven's building exposure, zone by zone
Brookhaven rates 86.4% Minimal exposure against just 13.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 2,543 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Brookhaven compares
Brookhaven's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (20th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (19th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brookhaven ranks 25,572 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,222 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,587 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Brookhaven
Brookhaven's low wildfire rating (19th 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 86.4% of Brookhaven 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 Brookhaven's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Brookhaven's 25,572-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Brookhaven's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.