Drexel Hill, PA
Drexel Hill, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Drexel Hill at the 15th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 6,956 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Drexel Hill at the 16th percentile, close to its 15th-percentile risk score.
Drexel Hill's building exposure, zone by zone
96% of Drexel Hill's 6,956 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 4% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 6,956 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Drexel Hill against the rest of the country
Drexel Hill scores 15th nationally and 14th 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, Drexel Hill ranks 26,902 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,489 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,709 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
Drexel Hill's low wildfire rating (15th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 96% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Drexel Hill gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Drexel Hill's figures come from
Drexel Hill's 15th-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 Drexel Hill's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.