Brackenridge, PA
How exposed is Brackenridge to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Brackenridge at the 24th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,648 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Brackenridge at the 24th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Brackenridge's buildings actually sit
99.7% of Brackenridge's 1,648 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 0.3% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Brackenridge compares
Brackenridge scores 24th nationally and 27th within Pennsylvania — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brackenridge ranks 24,057 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,597 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,449 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Brackenridge's moderate wildfire rating (24th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Brackenridge's 99.7% 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 Brackenridge's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Brackenridge's 24,057-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Brackenridge's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.