Beaver Springs, PA
How exposed is Beaver Springs to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Beaver Springs at the 38th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 479 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Beaver Springs at the 36th national percentile — 2 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
Most of Beaver Springs's buildings (59.5%) 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 Springs ranks
Beaver Springs's 56th-percentile standing inside Pennsylvania outpaces its 38th 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, Beaver Springs ranks 19,643 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,733 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 870 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Beaver Springs and the insurance market
Beaver Springs's moderate rating (38th 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 ember exposure the dominant pattern in Beaver Springs (59.5% 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
Beaver Springs's 38th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Beaver Springs, see the exposure-zones guide.