Bally, PA
How exposed is Bally to wildfire?
Bally sits at the 20th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 521 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 Bally at the 18th percentile, close to its 20th-percentile risk score.
Bally's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 62% of Bally's 521 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 38% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Bally compares
Bally's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (21st percentile statewide) as it does nationally (20th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bally ranks 25,314 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,015 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,567 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Bally
At the 20th national percentile, Bally rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Bally (62% 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
Bally's 20th-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 Bally, see the exposure-zones guide.