Arnot, PA
How exposed is Arnot to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Arnot at the 47th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 284 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Arnot's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 45th percentile nationally.
Where Arnot's buildings actually sit
284 buildings are counted in Arnot, and 91.2% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
How Arnot compares
Arnot's 76th-percentile standing inside Pennsylvania outpaces its 47th 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, Arnot ranks 16,742 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,075 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 481 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Arnot and the insurance market
Arnot's elevated wildfire rating (47th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Arnot's 91.2% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Arnot's 16,742-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Arnot, see the exposure-zones guide.