Falmouth, PA
Falmouth wildfire risk explained
Falmouth sits at the 11th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 242 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Falmouth's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 10th percentile nationally.
Falmouth's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Falmouth's 242 counted buildings, 98.8% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Falmouth ranks
There's little gap between Falmouth's 11th national percentile and its 9th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Falmouth ranks 28,158 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,404 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,815 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Falmouth and the insurance market
At the 11th national percentile, Falmouth rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Falmouth
With 98.8% of Falmouth in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Falmouth's 28,158-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Falmouth, see the exposure-zones guide.