Berwick, PA
How exposed is Berwick to wildfire?
USFS scores Berwick at the 38th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 5,340 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Berwick at the 38th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Berwick's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Berwick (94.6% of 5,340 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 3.1% sit in the Direct zone. At 5,340 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Berwick ranks
Compare Berwick's two percentiles: 57th within Pennsylvania, only 38th nationally — a gap of 19 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Berwick ranks 19,548 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,231 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 848 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Berwick
Berwick's moderate wildfire rating (38th 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 Berwick
Berwick's 94.6% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Berwick's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 5,340 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Berwick. The exposure-zones guide covers what Berwick's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.