New Hope, PA
New Hope, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, New Hope lands at the 31st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 837 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks New Hope at the 29th national percentile — 2 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
USFS puts 54.4% of New Hope's 837 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 43.7% Direct and 1.9% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How New Hope compares
New Hope scores 31st nationally and 41st 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, New Hope ranks 21,696 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,286 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,173 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
New Hope and the insurance market
New Hope's moderate wildfire rating (31st percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 54.4% of New Hope's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
New Hope's 31st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond New Hope, see the exposure-zones guide.