Chevy Chase Heights, PA
Chevy Chase Heights wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Chevy Chase Heights at the 35th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 689 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Chevy Chase Heights at the 36th percentile, close to its 35th-percentile risk score.
Chevy Chase Heights's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 57.5% of Chevy Chase Heights's 689 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 42.5% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Chevy Chase Heights compares
Within Pennsylvania, Chevy Chase Heights ranks higher (50th percentile) than it does nationally (35th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Chevy Chase Heights ranks 20,468 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,772 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 993 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Chevy Chase Heights
Chevy Chase Heights's moderate wildfire rating (35th 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
Because 57.5% of Chevy Chase Heights's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Chevy Chase Heights's 20,468-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Chevy Chase Heights, see the exposure-zones guide.