Glenolden, PA
How exposed is Glenolden to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Glenolden at the 42nd national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 1,912 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Glenolden at the 39th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Glenolden's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Glenolden's buildings (95.1% of 1,912) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
How Glenolden compares
Within Pennsylvania, Glenolden ranks higher (67th percentile) than it does nationally (42nd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Glenolden ranks 18,319 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,727 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 666 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Glenolden's elevated rating (42nd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Glenolden
Even with 95.1% of Glenolden outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Glenolden's 18,319-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Glenolden, see the exposure-zones guide.