Chalfant, PA
Chalfant wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Chalfant lands at the 25th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 428 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Chalfant's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 26th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
99.1% of Chalfant's 428 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 0.9% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Chalfant compares
Chalfant's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (30th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (25th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Chalfant ranks 23,523 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,699 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,398 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Chalfant and the insurance market
Chalfant's moderate rating (25th 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
Chalfant's 99.1% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Chalfant's 25th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Chalfant, see the exposure-zones guide.