Blain, PA
Blain, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Blain lands at the 43rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 187 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Blain at the 41st national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Blain's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 79.1% of Blain's 187 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 20.9% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Blain against the rest of the country
Compare Blain's two percentiles: 68th within Pennsylvania, only 43rd nationally — a gap of 26 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Blain ranks 18,102 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,366 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 628 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Blain and the insurance market
Blain's elevated wildfire rating (43rd 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 79.1% of Blain's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Blain's 43rd-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 Blain, see the exposure-zones guide.