Alexandria, PA
Alexandria, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Alexandria sits at the 45th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 180 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Alexandria at the 45th percentile, close to its 45th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Alexandria's buildings (87.8%) 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.
Where Alexandria ranks
Compare Alexandria's two percentiles: 73rd within Pennsylvania, only 45th nationally — a gap of 27 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Alexandria ranks 17,246 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,646 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 542 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Alexandria and the insurance market
Alexandria's elevated rating (45th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Alexandria
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Alexandria (87.8% 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 Alexandria's 17,246-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Alexandria, see the exposure-zones guide.