Lansdale, PA
Lansdale wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Lansdale at the 6th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 4,419 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Lansdale's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 7th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Lansdale rates 87.8% Minimal exposure against just 12.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 4,419 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Lansdale ranks
There's little gap between Lansdale's 6th national percentile and its 3rd percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lansdale ranks 29,548 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,866 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,923 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
Lansdale's low rating (6th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 87.8% of Lansdale 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
Lansdale's 6th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Lansdale, see the exposure-zones guide.