Forest Hills, PA
How exposed is Forest Hills to wildfire?
USFS scores Forest Hills at the 25th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 3,109 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Forest Hills at the 26th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Forest Hills's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 9.6% of Forest Hills's 3,109 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 90.4% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Forest Hills ranks
There's little gap between Forest Hills's 25th national percentile and its 29th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Forest Hills ranks 23,679 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,279 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,412 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Forest Hills
At the 25th national percentile, Forest 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
Forest Hills's 90.4% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Forest Hills's 23,679-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Forest Hills, see the exposure-zones guide.