West Conshohocken, PA
West Conshohocken wildfire risk explained
USFS scores West Conshohocken at the 14th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 570 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts West Conshohocken at the 13th percentile, close to its 14th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of West Conshohocken's buildings (78.1%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How West Conshohocken compares
There's little gap between West Conshohocken's 14th national percentile and its 13th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, West Conshohocken ranks 27,213 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,257 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,738 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
West Conshohocken and the insurance market
West Conshohocken's low wildfire rating (14th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
West Conshohocken's 78.1% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 570 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for West Conshohocken. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond West Conshohocken, see the exposure-zones guide.