Beaver Meadows, PA
Beaver Meadows wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Beaver Meadows at the 59th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 404 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Beaver Meadows at the 58th percentile, close to its 59th-percentile risk score.
Where Beaver Meadows's buildings actually sit
Most of Beaver Meadows's buildings (84.4%) 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.
Where Beaver Meadows ranks
Within Pennsylvania, Beaver Meadows ranks higher (95th percentile) than it does nationally (59th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Beaver Meadows ranks 12,927 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,141 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 95 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Beaver Meadows
Beaver Meadows's elevated wildfire rating (59th 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 84.4% of Beaver Meadows'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.
Where Beaver Meadows's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Beaver Meadows's 12,927-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Beaver Meadows's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.