Kennett Square, PA
Kennett Square wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Kennett Square at the 21st national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,631 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 Kennett Square at the 20th percentile, close to its 21st-percentile risk score.
Kennett Square's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Kennett Square (82.5% of 1,631 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 17.5% sit in the Direct zone.
Kennett Square against the rest of the country
Kennett Square's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (22nd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (21st) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kennett Square ranks 25,070 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,650 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,550 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Kennett Square
Kennett Square's moderate wildfire rating (21st 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
Because 82.5% of Kennett Square's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,631 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Kennett Square. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Kennett Square, see the exposure-zones guide.