Guilford, PA
Guilford, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Guilford lands at the 10th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 1,196 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Guilford's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 10th percentile nationally.
Where Guilford's buildings actually sit
Most of Guilford's buildings (71.8% of 1,196) 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.
Guilford against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Guilford's 10th national percentile and its 8th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Guilford ranks 28,536 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,672 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,841 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Guilford
Guilford's low wildfire rating (10th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 71.8% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Guilford gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Guilford's 28,536-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Guilford, see the exposure-zones guide.