Laureldale, PA
How exposed is Laureldale to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Laureldale at the 21st national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,585 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Laureldale's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 20th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Laureldale's buildings (81.1%) 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.
Laureldale against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Laureldale's 21st national percentile and its 23rd percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Laureldale ranks 24,878 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,814 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,531 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Laureldale and the insurance market
At the 21st national percentile, Laureldale rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 81.1% of Laureldale'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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Laureldale's 24,878-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Laureldale, see the exposure-zones guide.