Kimberton, PA
Kimberton, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Kimberton at the 15th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 286 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Kimberton at the 14th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Kimberton's 286 counted buildings, 81.8% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Kimberton ranks
There's little gap between Kimberton's 15th national percentile and its 14th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kimberton ranks 26,866 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,018 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,708 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Kimberton and the insurance market
At the 15th national percentile, Kimberton 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 Kimberton
Because Direct exposure dominates in Kimberton (81.8%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 286 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Kimberton. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Kimberton, see the exposure-zones guide.