Highland Park, PA
Highland Park, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Highland Park's 605 buildings earn a 30th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Highland Park's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 29th percentile nationally.
Highland Park's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Highland Park's buildings (86.3%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Highland Park against the rest of the country
Highland Park scores 30th nationally and 38th 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, Highland Park ranks 22,073 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,772 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,228 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
Highland Park's moderate rating (30th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Highland Park (86.3% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Highland Park's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 605 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Highland Park. The exposure-zones guide covers what Highland Park's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.