Arendtsville, PA
Arendtsville, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Arendtsville at the 45th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 435 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Arendtsville at the 45th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Arendtsville's buildings actually sit
435 buildings are counted in Arendtsville, and 59.5% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 40.5% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Arendtsville compares
Compare Arendtsville's two percentiles: 72nd 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, Arendtsville ranks 17,345 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,553 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 549 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Arendtsville and the insurance market
Arendtsville's elevated wildfire rating (45th 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 Arendtsville
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Arendtsville (59.5% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Arendtsville's figures come from
Arendtsville's 45th-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 Arendtsville's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.