Caln, PA
Caln wildfire risk explained
Caln sits at the 13th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 512 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Caln's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 12th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
512 buildings are counted in Caln, and 60.6% 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.
How Caln compares
There's little gap between Caln's 13th national percentile and its 12th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Caln ranks 27,338 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,155 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,748 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Caln and the insurance market
At the 13th national percentile, Caln rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Caln's 60.6% 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
Caln's 13th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Caln, see the exposure-zones guide.