Beaver Falls, PA
Beaver Falls, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Beaver Falls sits at the 34th 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 3,625 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Beaver Falls at the 34th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
93.3% of Beaver Falls's 3,625 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 6.7% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Beaver Falls against the rest of the country
Beaver Falls's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (48th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (34th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Beaver Falls ranks 20,780 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,628 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,042 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Beaver Falls and the insurance market
Beaver Falls's moderate wildfire rating (34th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 93.3% of Beaver Falls'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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Beaver Falls's 20,780-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Beaver Falls, see the exposure-zones guide.