Folcroft, PA
How exposed is Folcroft to wildfire?
Folcroft sits at the 39th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,040 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Folcroft at the 37th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Folcroft's buildings actually sit
Folcroft rates 97% Minimal exposure against just 3% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 1,040 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Folcroft compares
Compare Folcroft's two percentiles: 60th within Pennsylvania, only 39th nationally — a gap of 21 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Folcroft ranks 19,298 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,656 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 796 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Folcroft and the insurance market
Folcroft's moderate wildfire rating (39th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Folcroft
With 97% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Folcroft gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Folcroft's 39th-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 Folcroft, see the exposure-zones guide.