West Grove, PA
West Grove wildfire risk explained
USFS scores West Grove at the 15th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 826 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 Grove at the 15th percentile, close to its 15th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of West Grove's buildings (57.4%) 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 Grove compares
West Grove scores 15th nationally and 15th 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, West Grove ranks 26,738 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,390 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,698 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
West Grove and the insurance market
West Grove's low wildfire rating (15th 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 Grove's 57.4% 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
West Grove's 15th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond West Grove, see the exposure-zones guide.