Media, PA
Media, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Media's 1,585 buildings earn a 21st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Media at the 20th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Media's buildings actually sit
Only 15% of Media's 1,585 buildings carry Direct exposure and 13.6% carry Indirect; the remaining 71.5% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Media against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Media's 21st national percentile and its 22nd percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Media ranks 25,071 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,815 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,551 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Media and the insurance market
Media's moderate rating (21st 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 71.5% of Media 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Media's 25,071-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Media, see the exposure-zones guide.