Swedeland, PA
How exposed is Swedeland to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Swedeland lands at the 11th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 661 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Swedeland at the 10th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 3.8% of Swedeland's 661 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 96.2% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Swedeland compares
Swedeland's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (9th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (11th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Swedeland ranks 28,188 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,052 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,818 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 11th national percentile, Swedeland 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
Even with 96.2% of Swedeland outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Swedeland's 11th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Swedeland, see the exposure-zones guide.