Villanova, PA
Villanova wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Villanova lands at the 13th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 1,254 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Villanova at the 13th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Villanova's buildings actually sit
1,254 buildings are counted in Villanova, and 82.7% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 17.3% rated Minimal.
Villanova against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Villanova's 13th national percentile and its 12th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Villanova ranks 27,341 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,326 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,751 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
Villanova's low wildfire rating (13th 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 Villanova
Villanova's 82.7% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Villanova's 27,341-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Villanova, see the exposure-zones guide.