Hatboro, PA
Hatboro wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Hatboro at the 14th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 2,554 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 Hatboro at the 14th percentile, close to its 14th-percentile risk score.
Where Hatboro's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 81.8% of Hatboro's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 18.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Hatboro against the rest of the country
Hatboro's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (13th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (14th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hatboro ranks 27,179 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,193 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,735 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Hatboro
Hatboro's low wildfire rating (14th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 81.8% of Hatboro 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 Hatboro's 27,179-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Hatboro, see the exposure-zones guide.