New Milford, PA
How exposed is New Milford to wildfire?
New Milford's 502 buildings earn a 19th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (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 Milford at the 19th percentile, close to its 19th-percentile risk score.
New Milford's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in New Milford (59.4% of 502 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 40.6% sit in the Direct zone.
How New Milford compares
New Milford scores 19th nationally and 21st 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 Milford ranks 25,448 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,318 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,579 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
New Milford's low rating (19th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 59.4% of New Milford'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 Milford's 19th-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 Milford, see the exposure-zones guide.