Blossburg, PA
How exposed is Blossburg to wildfire?
USFS scores Blossburg at the 44th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 888 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 Blossburg at the 43rd percentile, close to its 44th-percentile risk score.
Where Blossburg's buildings actually sit
53.8% of Blossburg's 888 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 46.2% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Blossburg against the rest of the country
Compare Blossburg's two percentiles: 70th within Pennsylvania, only 44th nationally — a gap of 26 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Blossburg ranks 17,786 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,836 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 595 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Blossburg and the insurance market
Blossburg's elevated wildfire rating (44th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 53.8% of Blossburg'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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 888 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Blossburg. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Blossburg, see the exposure-zones guide.