Orchard Hills, PA
How exposed is Orchard Hills to wildfire?
Orchard Hills's 1,213 buildings earn a 37th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Orchard Hills at the 37th percentile, close to its 37th-percentile risk score.
Orchard Hills's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Orchard Hills: 65.5% of its 1,213 buildings, versus 34.5% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Orchard Hills ranks
Compare Orchard Hills's two percentiles: 54th within Pennsylvania, only 37th nationally — a gap of 18 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Orchard Hills ranks 19,993 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,581 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 919 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
Orchard Hills's moderate rating (37th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 65.5% of Orchard Hills in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,213 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Orchard Hills. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Orchard Hills, see the exposure-zones guide.