Chest Springs, PA
How exposed is Chest Springs to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Chest Springs at the 24th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 99 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Chest Springs at the 24th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Chest Springs's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 57.6% of Chest Springs's 99 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 42.4% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Chest Springs ranks
Chest Springs scores 24th nationally and 28th within Pennsylvania — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Chest Springs ranks 23,873 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,100 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,429 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Chest Springs and the insurance market
At the 24th national percentile, Chest Springs 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
Because 57.6% of Chest Springs's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Chest Springs's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Chest Springs's 23,873-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Chest Springs's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.