Telford, PA
Telford, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Telford 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 1,537 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 Telford at the 9th percentile, close to its 9th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 86.7% of Telford's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 13.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Telford against the rest of the country
Telford scores 9th nationally and 6th within Pennsylvania — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Telford ranks 28,758 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,002 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,863 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 9th national percentile, Telford 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
With 86.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Telford gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Telford's 28,758-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Telford, see the exposure-zones guide.