Franklin Park, PA
How exposed is Franklin Park to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Franklin Park lands at the 34th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 5,699 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Franklin Park at the 34th percentile, close to its 34th-percentile risk score.
Where Franklin Park's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Franklin Park: 62.2% of its 5,699 buildings, versus 19.9% Indirect and 17.9% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap. At 5,699 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Franklin Park compares
Franklin Park's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (47th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (34th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Franklin Park ranks 20,843 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,035 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,056 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Franklin Park
Franklin Park's moderate rating (34th 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
Franklin Park's 62.2% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Franklin Park's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 5,699 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Franklin Park. The exposure-zones guide covers what Franklin Park's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.