Beaver, PA
How exposed is Beaver to wildfire?
USFS scores Beaver at the 27th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 2,420 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 at the 27th percentile, close to its 27th-percentile risk score.
Where Beaver's buildings actually sit
2,420 buildings are counted in Beaver, and 60.6% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 1.6% in Direct exposure or the 37.8% rated Minimal.
Where Beaver ranks
Beaver's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (32nd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (27th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Beaver ranks 23,139 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,465 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,359 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Beaver
Beaver's moderate wildfire rating (27th 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.
Hardening a home in Beaver
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Beaver (60.6% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Beaver's 23,139-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, see the exposure-zones guide.