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Spring House, PA

Spring House, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers

Low
13thpercentile nationally

USFS scores Spring House at the 13th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 1,208 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)

Separately from the risk score above, Spring House's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 13th percentile nationally.

Spring House's building exposure, zone by zone

1,208Total buildings
66%Direct exposure
0%Indirect exposure
34%Minimal exposure

1,208 buildings are counted in Spring House, and 66% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 34% rated Minimal.

Spring House against the rest of the country

There's little gap between Spring House's 13th national percentile and its 12th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Spring House ranks 27,399 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,602 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,755 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.

Shopping for coverage in Spring House

At the 13th national percentile, Spring House rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.

What would actually reduce this score

Spring House's 66% 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

The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,208 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Spring House. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Spring House, see the exposure-zones guide.