Westmont, PA
Westmont, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Westmont sits at the 40th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 2,403 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Westmont's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 39th percentile nationally.
Where Westmont's buildings actually sit
Most of Westmont's buildings (46.7%) 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.
Westmont against the rest of the country
Within Pennsylvania, Westmont ranks higher (62nd percentile) than it does nationally (40th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Westmont ranks 18,954 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,506 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 752 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Westmont and the insurance market
Westmont's moderate wildfire rating (40th 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
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Westmont (46.7% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Westmont's 18,954-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Westmont, see the exposure-zones guide.