Boyers, PA
How exposed is Boyers to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Boyers at the 39th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 114 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Boyers at the 39th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Boyers's buildings actually sit
114 buildings are counted in Boyers, and 63.2% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Boyers against the rest of the country
Compare Boyers's two percentiles: 60th within Pennsylvania, only 39th nationally — a gap of 21 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Boyers ranks 19,330 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,471 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 801 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Boyers
Boyers's moderate wildfire rating (39th 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.
Hardening a home in Boyers
Boyers's 63.2% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Boyers's 19,330-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Boyers, see the exposure-zones guide.