Bath, PA
Bath, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Bath at the 15th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 1,064 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Bath at the 15th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Bath's buildings actually sit
Only 18.5% of Bath's 1,064 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 81.5% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Bath compares
There's little gap between Bath's 15th national percentile and its 15th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bath ranks 26,765 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,496 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,699 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Bath
Bath's low rating (15th 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
With 81.5% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Bath gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Bath's figures come from
Bath's 15th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Bath's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.