Fairless Hills, PA
Fairless Hills wildfire risk explained
Fairless Hills's 2,917 buildings earn a 33rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Fairless Hills's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 35th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 90.9% of Fairless Hills's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 9.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Fairless Hills compares
There's little gap between Fairless Hills's 33rd national percentile and its 46th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fairless Hills ranks 20,999 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,557 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,076 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Fairless Hills and the insurance market
At the 33rd national percentile, Fairless Hills rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 90.9% of Fairless Hills outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Fairless Hills's 33rd-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 Fairless Hills, see the exposure-zones guide.