Newtown (Bucks), PA
Newtown (Bucks) wildfire risk explained
Newtown (Bucks)'s 1,006 buildings earn a 26th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Newtown (Bucks) at the 26th percentile, close to its 26th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Newtown (Bucks)'s buildings (69.9% of 1,006) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Newtown (Bucks) against the rest of the country
Newtown (Bucks)'s risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (31st percentile statewide) as it does nationally (26th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Newtown (Bucks) ranks 23,337 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,891 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,381 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Newtown (Bucks)
Newtown (Bucks)'s moderate wildfire rating (26th 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 69.9% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Newtown (Bucks) gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Newtown (Bucks)'s 23,337-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Newtown (Bucks), see the exposure-zones guide.