Valley View (York), PA
Valley View (York) wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Valley View (York) at the 5th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 1,338 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Valley View (York) at the 5th percentile, close to its 5th-percentile risk score.
Where Valley View (York)'s buildings actually sit
Valley View (York) rates 87.8% Minimal exposure against just 12.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 1,338 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Valley View (York) ranks
There's little gap between Valley View (York)'s 5th national percentile and its 2nd 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 View (York) ranks 30,021 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,891 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,948 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
Valley View (York)'s low wildfire rating (5th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Valley View (York)
Valley View (York)'s 87.8% 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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,338 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Valley View (York). For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Valley View (York), see the exposure-zones guide.