Oreland, PA
Oreland wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Oreland at the 14th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 2,226 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Oreland at the 15th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 64.7% of Oreland's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 35.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Oreland against the rest of the country
Oreland scores 14th nationally and 13th 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, Oreland ranks 27,055 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,874 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,725 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Oreland and the insurance market
Oreland's low rating (14th 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
Even with 64.7% of Oreland outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Oreland's 14th-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 Oreland, see the exposure-zones guide.