Valley Green, PA
How exposed is Valley Green to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Valley Green lands at the 18th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 994 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Valley Green at the 16th national percentile — 2 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
USFS classifies 61.9% of Valley Green's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 14.5% Indirect share and far above its 23.6% Minimal share — a profile where 615 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Valley Green compares
There's little gap between Valley Green's 18th national percentile and its 19th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Valley Green ranks 25,888 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,984 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,618 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Valley Green and the insurance market
Valley Green's low rating (18th 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
Valley Green's 61.9% 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 994 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Valley Green. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Valley Green, see the exposure-zones guide.