Linwood, PA
Linwood wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Linwood at the 19th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 1,053 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Linwood at the 20th percentile, close to its 19th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
98.4% of Linwood's 1,053 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 1.6% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Linwood compares
Linwood's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (21st percentile statewide) as it does nationally (19th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Linwood ranks 25,476 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,579 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,581 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Linwood and the insurance market
Linwood's low rating (19th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Linwood
With 98.4% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Linwood gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Linwood's 25,476-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Linwood, see the exposure-zones guide.