Downingtown, PA
Downingtown, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Downingtown's 2,085 buildings earn a 17th-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 Downingtown at the 14th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 68% of Downingtown's 2,085 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 13.4% Direct and 18.6% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Downingtown against the rest of the country
Downingtown scores 17th nationally and 17th within Pennsylvania — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Downingtown ranks 26,295 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,236 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,652 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Downingtown
Downingtown'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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 68% of Downingtown'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 Downingtown's 26,295-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Downingtown, see the exposure-zones guide.