Taylorstown, PA
How exposed is Taylorstown to wildfire?
Taylorstown sits at the 41st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 167 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Taylorstown at the 43rd national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Taylorstown's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Taylorstown: 81.4% of its 167 buildings, versus 18.6% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Taylorstown compares
Within Pennsylvania, Taylorstown ranks higher (65th percentile) than it does nationally (41st) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Taylorstown ranks 18,671 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,148 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 707 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Taylorstown and the insurance market
Taylorstown's elevated rating (41st percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Taylorstown's 81.4% 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 167 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Taylorstown. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Taylorstown, see the exposure-zones guide.