Avonmore, PA
How exposed is Avonmore to wildfire?
Avonmore sits at the 36th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 560 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 Avonmore at the 37th percentile, close to its 36th-percentile risk score.
Avonmore's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 76.8% of Avonmore's 560 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 23.2% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Avonmore against the rest of the country
Within Pennsylvania, Avonmore ranks higher (53rd percentile) than it does nationally (36th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Avonmore ranks 20,055 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,411 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 925 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Avonmore
Avonmore's moderate rating (36th 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
Because 76.8% of Avonmore's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Avonmore's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 560 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Avonmore. The exposure-zones guide covers what Avonmore's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.