Glendale, PA
Glendale, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Glendale at the 24th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 814 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Glendale at the 25th percentile, close to its 24th-percentile risk score.
Glendale's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 90.5% of Glendale's 814 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 0.3% Direct and 9.2% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Glendale against the rest of the country
Glendale scores 24th nationally and 27th within Pennsylvania — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Glendale ranks 24,091 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,513 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,457 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Glendale and the insurance market
At the 24th national percentile, Glendale 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 Glendale
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Glendale (90.5% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Glendale's figures come from
Glendale's 24th-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 Glendale's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.