Bowmanstown, PA
How exposed is Bowmanstown to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Bowmanstown at the 51st national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 460 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Bowmanstown at the 50th percentile, close to its 51st-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 81.1% of Bowmanstown's 460 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 18.9% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Bowmanstown against the rest of the country
Bowmanstown's 84th-percentile standing inside Pennsylvania outpaces its 51st national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bowmanstown ranks 15,423 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,065 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 322 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Bowmanstown
At the 51st national percentile, Bowmanstown rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Bowmanstown
Bowmanstown's 81.1% 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.
Where Bowmanstown's figures come from
Bowmanstown's 51st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Bowmanstown's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.