New Market, PA
New Market, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, New Market lands at the 16th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 275 buildings, not the land around them. (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 Market at the 16th percentile, close to its 16th-percentile risk score.
Where New Market's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 98.9% of New Market's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 1.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
New Market against the rest of the country
New Market's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (17th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (16th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, New Market ranks 26,389 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,370 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,661 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in New Market
New Market's low wildfire rating (16th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 98.9% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, New Market gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where New Market's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind New Market's 26,389-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what New Market's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.