New Bethlehem, PA
New Bethlehem, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts New Bethlehem at the 41st national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 556 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts New Bethlehem at the 41st percentile, close to its 41st-percentile risk score.
Where New Bethlehem's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 90.8% of New Bethlehem's 556 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 9.2% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
New Bethlehem against the rest of the country
New Bethlehem's 64th-percentile standing inside Pennsylvania outpaces its 41st national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, New Bethlehem ranks 18,731 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,483 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 711 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in New Bethlehem
New Bethlehem's elevated rating (41st 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
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in New Bethlehem (90.8% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind New Bethlehem's 18,731-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond New Bethlehem, see the exposure-zones guide.