Cementon, PA
How exposed is Cementon to wildfire?
USFS scores Cementon at the 23rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 718 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Cementon at the 22nd percentile, close to its 23rd-percentile risk score.
Where Cementon's buildings actually sit
Most of Cementon's buildings (91% of 718) 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.
Where Cementon ranks
There's little gap between Cementon's 23rd national percentile and its 26th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cementon ranks 24,248 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,483 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,476 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 23rd national percentile, Cementon rates moderate 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
With 91% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Cementon 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
Cementon's 23rd-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 Cementon, see the exposure-zones guide.