East York, PA
How exposed is East York to wildfire?
USFS scores East York at the 7th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 3,264 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts East York at the 6th percentile, close to its 7th-percentile risk score.
Where East York's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 86% of East York's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 13.6% Direct and 0.4% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How East York compares
East York scores 7th nationally and 4th 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, East York ranks 29,481 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,084 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,917 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
East York's low rating (7th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 86% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, East York gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where East York's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind East York's 29,481-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what East York's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.