Castanea, PA
Castanea, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Castanea at the 52nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 545 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Castanea at the 50th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Castanea's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 68.4% of Castanea's 545 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 31.6% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Castanea against the rest of the country
Within Pennsylvania, Castanea ranks higher (86th percentile) than it does nationally (52nd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Castanea ranks 15,202 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,644 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 287 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Castanea
Castanea's elevated rating (52nd 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 ember exposure the dominant pattern in Castanea (68.4% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Castanea's 15,202-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Castanea, see the exposure-zones guide.