Trevose, PA
Trevose wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Trevose lands at the 25th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 1,309 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Trevose at the 25th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Trevose's buildings actually sit
Only 21.1% of Trevose's 1,309 buildings carry Direct exposure and 34.7% carry Indirect; the remaining 44.2% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Trevose ranks
Trevose's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (29th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (25th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Trevose ranks 23,681 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,031 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,414 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Trevose and the insurance market
Trevose's moderate rating (25th 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
Trevose's 44.2% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Trevose's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,309 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Trevose. The exposure-zones guide covers what Trevose's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.