Upland, PA
How exposed is Upland to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Upland lands at the 17th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 825 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Upland at the 19th percentile, close to its 17th-percentile risk score.
Where Upland's buildings actually sit
Upland rates 90.7% Minimal exposure against just 9.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 825 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Upland compares
Upland scores 17th nationally and 18th 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, Upland ranks 26,203 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,401 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,644 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Upland and the insurance market
Upland's low rating (17th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Upland's 90.7% 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 Upland's figures come from
Upland's 17th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Upland's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.