Fort Washington, PA
Fort Washington, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Fort Washington sits at the 16th 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 2,097 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Fort Washington's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 17th percentile nationally.
Fort Washington's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Fort Washington: 53.7% of its 2,097 buildings, versus 0% Indirect and 46.4% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Fort Washington compares
There's little gap between Fort Washington's 16th national percentile and its 16th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fort Washington ranks 26,421 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,202 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,666 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Fort Washington and the insurance market
Fort Washington's low wildfire rating (16th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 53.7% of Fort Washington 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.
Where Fort Washington's figures come from
Fort Washington's 16th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Fort Washington's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.