Pottsgrove, PA
Pottsgrove, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Pottsgrove at the 9th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 1,606 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 Pottsgrove at the 8th percentile, close to its 9th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Pottsgrove's 1,606 counted buildings, 82% carry Direct exposure and only 17.5% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Pottsgrove ranks
Pottsgrove's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (6th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (9th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pottsgrove ranks 28,823 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,747 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,870 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Pottsgrove
Pottsgrove'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
Pottsgrove's 82% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pottsgrove's 28,823-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Pottsgrove, see the exposure-zones guide.