Ashville, PA
How exposed is Ashville to wildfire?
Ashville sits at the 44th 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 146 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 Ashville at the 43rd percentile, close to its 44th-percentile risk score.
Ashville's building exposure, zone by zone
146 buildings are counted in Ashville, and 74% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 26% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Ashville against the rest of the country
Compare Ashville's two percentiles: 70th within Pennsylvania, only 44th nationally — a gap of 26 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ashville ranks 17,813 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,040 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 598 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Ashville and the insurance market
Ashville'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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Ashville (74% 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
Ashville's 44th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Ashville, see the exposure-zones guide.