Barrville, PA
Barrville wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Barrville lands at the 62nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 110 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Barrville at the 59th national percentile — 3 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Barrville's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 80.9% of Barrville's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 19.1% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 89 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Barrville compares
Barrville's 97th-percentile standing inside Pennsylvania outpaces its 62nd national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Barrville ranks 12,073 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,634 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 53 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Barrville
Barrville's 62nd-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Barrville's 80.9% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Barrville's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 110 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Barrville. The exposure-zones guide covers what Barrville's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.