Blain City, PA
Blain City wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Blain City at the 53rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 140 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 Blain City at the 53rd percentile, close to its 53rd-percentile risk score.
Where Blain City's buildings actually sit
Most of Blain City's buildings (55%) 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 Blain City ranks
Compare Blain City's two percentiles: 87th within Pennsylvania, only 53rd nationally — a gap of 34 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Blain City ranks 14,948 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,300 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 259 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Blain City and the insurance market
At the 53rd national percentile, Blain City rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Blain City's 55% 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 Blain City's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Blain City's 14,948-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Blain City's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.