Blooming Valley, PA
Blooming Valley wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Blooming Valley at the 36th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 249 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Blooming Valley's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 37th percentile nationally.
Blooming Valley's building exposure, zone by zone
92% of Blooming Valley's 249 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 229 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 8% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
How Blooming Valley compares
Compare Blooming Valley's two percentiles: 52nd within Pennsylvania, only 36th nationally — a gap of 16 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Blooming Valley ranks 20,146 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,180 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 947 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Blooming Valley
Blooming Valley's moderate rating (36th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Blooming Valley
Because Direct exposure dominates in Blooming Valley (92%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 249 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Blooming Valley. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Blooming Valley, see the exposure-zones guide.