Avalon, PA
How exposed is Avalon to wildfire?
USFS scores Avalon at the 27th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 1,675 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Avalon at the 27th percentile, close to its 27th-percentile risk score.
Where Avalon's buildings actually sit
Avalon rates 96.1% Minimal exposure against just 3.9% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 1,675 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Avalon compares
There's little gap between Avalon's 27th national percentile and its 32nd percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Avalon ranks 23,078 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,508 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,355 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Avalon
At the 27th national percentile, Avalon rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Avalon
Avalon's 96.1% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Avalon's figures come from
Avalon's 27th-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 Avalon's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.