Collegeville, PA
Collegeville wildfire risk explained
Collegeville's 1,322 buildings earn a 10th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Collegeville at the 10th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Collegeville's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Collegeville's 1,322 counted buildings, 50.1% carry Direct exposure and only 49.8% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Collegeville compares
Collegeville's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (8th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (10th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Collegeville ranks 28,380 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,964 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,827 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Collegeville and the insurance market
Collegeville's low wildfire rating (10th 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.
Hardening a home in Collegeville
With 50.1% of Collegeville in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Collegeville's 10th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Collegeville, see the exposure-zones guide.