Baldwin, PA
How exposed is Baldwin to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Baldwin at the 22nd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 7,866 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Baldwin at the 22nd national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Baldwin's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Baldwin's buildings (44.8%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone. At 7,866 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Baldwin compares
Baldwin's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (24th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (22nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Baldwin ranks 24,749 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,157 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,518 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Baldwin and the insurance market
Baldwin's moderate wildfire rating (22nd 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
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Baldwin (44.8% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Baldwin's 22nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Baldwin, see the exposure-zones guide.