Melrose Park, PA
Melrose Park, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Melrose Park at the 15th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 820 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Melrose Park's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 17th percentile nationally.
Melrose Park's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 30.1% of Melrose Park's 820 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 69.9% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Melrose Park against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Melrose Park's 15th national percentile and its 15th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Melrose Park ranks 26,675 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,452 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,691 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Melrose Park
Melrose Park's low rating (15th 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
Melrose Park's 69.9% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Melrose Park's 15th-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 Melrose Park, see the exposure-zones guide.