Brandonville, PA
Brandonville wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Brandonville at the 59th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 153 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Brandonville at the 57th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Brandonville's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Brandonville's 153 counted buildings, 64.7% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Brandonville compares
Within Pennsylvania, Brandonville ranks higher (95th percentile) than it does nationally (59th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brandonville ranks 12,996 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,772 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 100 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Brandonville
Brandonville's elevated rating (59th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 64.7% of Brandonville in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 153 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Brandonville. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Brandonville, see the exposure-zones guide.