Avella, PA
Avella wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Avella at the 42nd national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 456 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Avella's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 44th percentile nationally.
Avella's building exposure, zone by zone
456 buildings are counted in Avella, and 59.9% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 40.1% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Where Avella ranks
Compare Avella's two percentiles: 68th within Pennsylvania, only 42nd nationally — a gap of 25 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Avella ranks 18,196 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,162 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 643 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Avella
Avella's elevated wildfire rating (42nd 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
Avella's 59.9% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Avella's 18,196-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Avella, see the exposure-zones guide.