Montrose Manor, PA
How exposed is Montrose Manor to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Montrose Manor lands at the 16th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 360 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Montrose Manor at the 16th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Montrose Manor (75% of 360 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 15.3% sit in the Direct zone.
Where Montrose Manor ranks
Montrose Manor scores 16th nationally and 16th within Pennsylvania — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Montrose Manor ranks 26,422 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,066 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,667 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
Montrose Manor's low rating (16th 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
Montrose Manor's 75% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Montrose Manor's 26,422-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Montrose Manor, see the exposure-zones guide.