Woodlyn, PA
Woodlyn wildfire risk explained
Woodlyn's 2,879 buildings earn a 17th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Woodlyn at the 18th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
94.3% of Woodlyn's 2,879 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 5.7% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Woodlyn compares
Woodlyn's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (17th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (17th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Woodlyn ranks 26,233 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,615 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,649 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Woodlyn
At the 17th national percentile, Woodlyn rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With 94.3% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Woodlyn gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,879 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Woodlyn. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Woodlyn, see the exposure-zones guide.