Quarryville, PA
How exposed is Quarryville to wildfire?
Quarryville sits at the 9th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,086 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Quarryville at the 8th percentile, close to its 9th-percentile risk score.
Where Quarryville's buildings actually sit
1,086 buildings are counted in Quarryville, and 73.3% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 26.7% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Quarryville compares
There's little gap between Quarryville'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, Quarryville ranks 28,824 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,368 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,871 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Quarryville and the insurance market
At the 9th national percentile, Quarryville rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Quarryville
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Quarryville (73.3% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Quarryville's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,086 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Quarryville. The exposure-zones guide covers what Quarryville's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.