Felton, PA
Felton, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Felton's 324 buildings earn a 11th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Felton at the 9th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Felton's building exposure, zone by zone
82.4% of Felton's 324 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 267 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 17.6% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Felton against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Felton'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, Felton ranks 28,030 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,989 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,803 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Felton and the insurance market
At the 11th national percentile, Felton rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Felton (82.4%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Felton's 28,030-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Felton, see the exposure-zones guide.