Audubon, PA
Audubon, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Audubon lands at the 11th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 2,519 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Audubon at the 11th percentile, close to its 11th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 67.1% of Audubon's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 0% Indirect share and far above its 32.9% Minimal share — a profile where 1,691 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Audubon against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Audubon's 11th national percentile and its 10th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Audubon ranks 28,002 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,271 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,802 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Audubon's low wildfire rating (11th 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
Audubon's 67.1% 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 Audubon's 28,002-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Audubon, see the exposure-zones guide.