Wescosville, PA
How exposed is Wescosville to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Wescosville at the 19th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 2,171 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Wescosville at the 21st national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Wescosville's buildings actually sit
Most of Wescosville's buildings (72.2% of 2,171) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Wescosville against the rest of the country
Wescosville scores 19th nationally and 20th 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, Wescosville ranks 25,670 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,017 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,600 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Wescosville and the insurance market
Wescosville's low wildfire rating (19th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 72.2% of Wescosville outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where Wescosville's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Wescosville's 25,670-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Wescosville's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.