Chestnut Hill, PA
How exposed is Chestnut Hill to wildfire?
Chestnut Hill's 2,348 buildings earn a 20th-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, Chestnut Hill's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 19th percentile nationally.
Chestnut Hill's building exposure, zone by zone
Chestnut Hill rates 50.3% Minimal exposure against just 36.3% Direct and 13.4% Indirect — of 2,348 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Chestnut Hill compares
There's little gap between Chestnut Hill's 20th national percentile and its 21st percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Chestnut Hill ranks 25,352 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,610 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,570 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
At the 20th national percentile, Chestnut Hill rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Chestnut Hill's 50.3% 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
Chestnut Hill's 20th-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 Chestnut Hill, see the exposure-zones guide.