Boiling Springs, PA
Boiling Springs, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Boiling Springs at the 28th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,466 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Boiling Springs's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 26th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 35.3% of Boiling Springs's 1,466 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 30% Direct and 34.7% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Boiling Springs compares
Boiling Springs's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (35th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (28th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Boiling Springs ranks 22,671 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,331 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,305 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Boiling Springs
At the 28th national percentile, Boiling Springs rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Boiling Springs's 35.3% 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
Boiling Springs's 28th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Boiling Springs, see the exposure-zones guide.