WildfireRiskFinder

Adamsburg, PA

How exposed is Adamsburg to wildfire?

Moderate
29thpercentile nationally

USFS scores Adamsburg at the 29th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 118 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 Adamsburg at the 30th percentile, close to its 29th-percentile risk score.

Adamsburg's building exposure, zone by zone

118Total buildings
31.4%Direct exposure
68.6%Indirect exposure
0%Minimal exposure

118 buildings are counted in Adamsburg, and 68.6% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 31.4% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.

Where Adamsburg ranks

Adamsburg's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (36th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (29th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Adamsburg ranks 22,353 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,270 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,262 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.

Adamsburg and the insurance market

Adamsburg's moderate wildfire rating (29th 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 Adamsburg

Because 68.6% of Adamsburg's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.

More on how this number was built

The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 118 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Adamsburg. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Adamsburg, see the exposure-zones guide.