Acosta, PA
How exposed is Acosta to wildfire?
USFS scores Acosta at the 44th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 173 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 Acosta at the 45th percentile, close to its 44th-percentile risk score.
Acosta's building exposure, zone by zone
54.3% of Acosta's 173 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 94 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 45.7% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where Acosta ranks
Acosta's 71st-percentile standing inside Pennsylvania outpaces its 44th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Acosta ranks 17,532 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,914 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 570 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Acosta and the insurance market
Acosta's elevated wildfire rating (44th 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.
Hardening a home in Acosta
Acosta's 54.3% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Acosta's figures come from
Acosta's 44th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Acosta's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.