North York, PA
North York, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts North York at the 4th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 453 actual buildings. (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 York at the 4th percentile, close to its 4th-percentile risk score.
North York's building exposure, zone by zone
98.7% of North York's 453 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 1.3% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How North York compares
There's little gap between North York's 4th national percentile and its 2nd percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, North York ranks 30,275 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,228 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,960 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
North York and the insurance market
At the 4th national percentile, North York 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 York
With 98.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, North York 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 North York's 30,275-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond North York, see the exposure-zones guide.