Bigler, PA
Bigler, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Bigler at the 54th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 292 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 Bigler at the 53rd percentile, close to its 54th-percentile risk score.
Where Bigler's buildings actually sit
292 buildings are counted in Bigler, and 63.7% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Bigler against the rest of the country
Compare Bigler's two percentiles: 89th within Pennsylvania, only 54th nationally — a gap of 35 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bigler ranks 14,636 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,862 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 227 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Bigler and the insurance market
At the 54th national percentile, Bigler rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With 63.7% of Bigler in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 292 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Bigler. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Bigler, see the exposure-zones guide.