Browntown, PA
Browntown wildfire risk explained
Browntown's 711 buildings earn a 26th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Browntown's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 25th percentile nationally.
Where Browntown's buildings actually sit
Most of Browntown's buildings (97.6% of 711) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Browntown against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Browntown's 26th national percentile and its 31st percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Browntown ranks 23,365 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,552 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,383 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
At the 26th national percentile, Browntown rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 97.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Browntown gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Browntown's 26th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Browntown, see the exposure-zones guide.