Avonia, PA
Avonia wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Avonia lands at the 25th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 618 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Avonia's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 25th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 52.8% of Avonia's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 46.1% Direct and 1.1% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Avonia compares
Avonia's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (30th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (25th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Avonia ranks 23,584 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,594 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,404 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
Avonia's moderate rating (25th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Avonia's 52.8% 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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 618 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Avonia. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Avonia, see the exposure-zones guide.