Doylestown, PA
Doylestown, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Doylestown at the 13th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 2,985 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Doylestown at the 12th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Doylestown's buildings actually sit
Only 32.9% of Doylestown's 2,985 buildings carry Direct exposure and 30.7% carry Indirect; the remaining 36.4% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Doylestown compares
Doylestown scores 13th nationally and 11th 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, Doylestown ranks 27,524 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,461 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,765 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Doylestown's low rating (13th 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
Doylestown's 36.4% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Doylestown's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Doylestown's 27,524-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Doylestown's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.