Fountain Hill, PA
Fountain Hill wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Fountain Hill at the 30th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,440 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Fountain Hill at the 28th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Fountain Hill's buildings actually sit
1,440 buildings are counted in Fountain Hill, and 91% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 9% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Where Fountain Hill ranks
There's little gap between Fountain Hill's 30th national percentile and its 38th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fountain Hill ranks 22,105 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,433 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,235 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Fountain Hill
At the 30th national percentile, Fountain Hill rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Fountain Hill
Because 91% of Fountain Hill's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Fountain Hill's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,440 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Fountain Hill. The exposure-zones guide covers what Fountain Hill's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.