North Wales, PA
How exposed is North Wales to wildfire?
USFS scores North Wales at the 9th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 1,213 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (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 Wales at the 9th percentile, close to its 9th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
North Wales rates 78.5% Minimal exposure against just 21.5% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 1,213 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where North Wales ranks
North Wales's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (6th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (9th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, North Wales ranks 28,854 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,580 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,875 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
North Wales and the insurance market
At the 9th national percentile, North Wales rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in North Wales
With 78.5% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, North Wales 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
North Wales's 9th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond North Wales, see the exposure-zones guide.