Norwood, PA
Norwood, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Norwood sits at the 43rd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,772 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Norwood's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 40th percentile nationally.
Norwood's building exposure, zone by zone
96.6% of Norwood's 1,772 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 3.4% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Norwood against the rest of the country
Compare Norwood's two percentiles: 69th within Pennsylvania, only 43rd nationally — a gap of 26 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Norwood ranks 17,911 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,144 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 612 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Norwood
Norwood's elevated wildfire rating (43rd 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 96.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Norwood 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
Norwood's 43rd-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 Norwood, see the exposure-zones guide.