Fleetwood, PA
Fleetwood wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Fleetwood lands at the 18th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 1,582 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Fleetwood at the 17th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Fleetwood's buildings (87.4%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Fleetwood against the rest of the country
Fleetwood scores 18th nationally and 19th 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, Fleetwood ranks 25,790 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,824 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,606 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Fleetwood and the insurance market
Fleetwood's low rating (18th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Fleetwood's 87.4% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Fleetwood's 18th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Fleetwood, see the exposure-zones guide.