Phoenixville, PA
How exposed is Phoenixville to wildfire?
Phoenixville's 4,826 buildings earn a 9th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Phoenixville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 8th percentile nationally.
Phoenixville's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 10.6% of Phoenixville's 4,826 buildings carry Direct exposure and 10.8% carry Indirect; the remaining 78.6% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Phoenixville ranks
There's little gap between Phoenixville's 9th national percentile and its 6th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Phoenixville ranks 28,855 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,540 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,876 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Phoenixville and the insurance market
Phoenixville's low wildfire rating (9th 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 78.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Phoenixville gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Phoenixville's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 4,826 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Phoenixville. The exposure-zones guide covers what Phoenixville's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.