Boalsburg, PA
Boalsburg wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Boalsburg at the 57th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 2,361 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 Boalsburg at the 54th percentile, close to its 57th-percentile risk score.
Boalsburg's building exposure, zone by zone
2,361 buildings are counted in Boalsburg, and 55.2% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 44.8% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Boalsburg compares
Compare Boalsburg's two percentiles: 94th within Pennsylvania, only 57th nationally — a gap of 37 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Boalsburg ranks 13,529 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,584 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 128 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Boalsburg and the insurance market
At the 57th national percentile, Boalsburg rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 55.2% of Boalsburg'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 2,361 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Boalsburg. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Boalsburg, see the exposure-zones guide.