Harleysville, PA
Harleysville, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Harleysville at the 9th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 2,791 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Harleysville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 9th percentile nationally.
Where Harleysville's buildings actually sit
54.1% of Harleysville's 2,791 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 1,510 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 6.1% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 39.8% are Minimal.
Harleysville against the rest of the country
Harleysville scores 9th nationally and 6th 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, Harleysville ranks 28,787 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,778 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,865 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Harleysville
At the 9th national percentile, Harleysville rates low 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 Harleysville
Harleysville's 54.1% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Harleysville's 28,787-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Harleysville, see the exposure-zones guide.