Jenkintown, PA
Jenkintown wildfire risk explained
Jenkintown's 1,550 buildings earn a 17th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Jenkintown at the 19th percentile, close to its 17th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 15.1% of Jenkintown's 1,550 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 84.9% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Jenkintown ranks
Jenkintown scores 17th nationally and 18th 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, Jenkintown ranks 26,078 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,958 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,631 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Jenkintown and the insurance market
At the 17th national percentile, Jenkintown 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 Jenkintown
Even with 84.9% of Jenkintown 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.
Where Jenkintown's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Jenkintown's 26,078-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Jenkintown's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.