Bloomsburg, PA
Bloomsburg wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Bloomsburg lands at the 34th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 3,474 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Bloomsburg's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 35th percentile nationally.
Bloomsburg's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Bloomsburg's buildings (50.1%) 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.
How Bloomsburg compares
Bloomsburg scores 34th nationally and 48th within Pennsylvania — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bloomsburg ranks 20,686 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,802 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,030 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Bloomsburg and the insurance market
Bloomsburg's moderate rating (34th 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 Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg's 50.1% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Bloomsburg's 20,686-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Bloomsburg, see the exposure-zones guide.