Blooming Glen, PA
How exposed is Blooming Glen to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Blooming Glen lands at the 13th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 268 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Blooming Glen at the 12th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Blooming Glen's building exposure, zone by zone
94% of Blooming Glen's 268 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 252 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 6% are Minimal.
How Blooming Glen compares
Blooming Glen's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (12th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (13th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Blooming Glen ranks 27,462 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,583 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,758 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Blooming Glen
Blooming Glen's low rating (13th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Blooming Glen's 94% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Blooming Glen's 13th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Blooming Glen, see the exposure-zones guide.