Colony Park, PA
Colony Park wildfire risk explained
Colony Park sits at the 17th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 492 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Colony Park at the 17th percentile, close to its 17th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 83.9% of Colony Park's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 16.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Colony Park ranks
There's little gap between Colony Park's 17th national percentile and its 17th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Colony Park ranks 26,329 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,502 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,656 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Colony Park and the insurance market
Colony Park's low rating (17th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Colony Park
Even with 83.9% of Colony Park 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 Colony Park's figures come from
Colony Park's 17th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Colony Park's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.