Newville, PA
How exposed is Newville to wildfire?
Newville sits at the 25th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 549 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Newville at the 27th percentile, close to its 25th-percentile risk score.
Newville's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 93.8% of Newville's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 6.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Newville against the rest of the country
Newville's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (29th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (25th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Newville ranks 23,680 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,592 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,413 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
Newville's moderate rating (25th 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
Even with 93.8% of Newville outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 549 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Newville. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Newville, see the exposure-zones guide.