Brownsville, PA
How exposed is Brownsville to wildfire?
USFS scores Brownsville at the 33rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 1,259 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Brownsville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 34th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
93.8% of Brownsville's 1,259 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 6.2% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where Brownsville ranks
There's little gap between Brownsville's 33rd national percentile and its 44th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brownsville ranks 21,220 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,303 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,114 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Brownsville and the insurance market
Brownsville's moderate wildfire rating (33rd 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 Brownsville
Brownsville's 93.8% 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
Brownsville's 33rd-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 Brownsville, see the exposure-zones guide.