Atlasburg, PA
How exposed is Atlasburg to wildfire?
Atlasburg sits at the 41st 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 265 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 Atlasburg at the 44th percentile, close to its 41st-percentile risk score.
Where Atlasburg's buildings actually sit
265 buildings are counted in Atlasburg, and 53.2% 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 Atlasburg compares
Compare Atlasburg's two percentiles: 65th within Pennsylvania, only 41st nationally — a gap of 24 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Atlasburg ranks 18,479 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,677 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 688 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Atlasburg
Atlasburg's elevated wildfire rating (41st 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
Because Direct exposure dominates in Atlasburg (53.2%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Atlasburg's 18,479-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Atlasburg, see the exposure-zones guide.