Glenside, PA
How exposed is Glenside to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Glenside at the 15th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 2,801 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Glenside at the 16th percentile, close to its 15th-percentile risk score.
Glenside's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 85.9% of Glenside's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 14.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Glenside ranks
There's little gap between Glenside's 15th national percentile and its 14th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Glenside ranks 26,864 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,764 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,706 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Glenside
Glenside's low rating (15th 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
Glenside's 85.9% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Glenside's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Glenside's 26,864-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Glenside's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.