North Catasauqua, PA
North Catasauqua, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
North Catasauqua sits at the 9th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,210 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 North Catasauqua at the 10th percentile, close to its 9th-percentile risk score.
Where North Catasauqua's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 96.9% of North Catasauqua's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 3.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where North Catasauqua ranks
North Catasauqua scores 9th nationally and 6th 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, North Catasauqua ranks 28,788 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,593 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,866 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
North Catasauqua's low rating (9th 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
North Catasauqua's 96.9% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,210 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for North Catasauqua. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond North Catasauqua, see the exposure-zones guide.