Coplay, PA
Coplay, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Coplay lands at the 16th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 1,422 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Coplay at the 15th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Coplay's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 99.4% of Coplay's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 0.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Coplay compares
There's little gap between Coplay's 16th national percentile and its 15th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Coplay ranks 26,611 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,528 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,684 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Coplay and the insurance market
At the 16th national percentile, Coplay 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
With 99.4% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Coplay gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Coplay's 16th-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 Coplay, see the exposure-zones guide.