South Coatesville, PA
How exposed is South Coatesville to wildfire?
South Coatesville's 482 buildings earn a 19th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts South Coatesville at the 17th percentile, close to its 19th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
482 buildings are counted in South Coatesville, and 61.8% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 38.2% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Where South Coatesville ranks
South Coatesville's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (20th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (19th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, South Coatesville ranks 25,699 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,676 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,601 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in South Coatesville
South Coatesville's low wildfire rating (19th 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.
Hardening a home in South Coatesville
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in South Coatesville (61.8% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind South Coatesville's 25,699-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond South Coatesville, see the exposure-zones guide.