Clarion, PA
Clarion, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Clarion at the 38th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,699 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Clarion at the 39th percentile, close to its 38th-percentile risk score.
Where Clarion's buildings actually sit
Most of Clarion's buildings (89.7%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Clarion compares
Clarion's 58th-percentile standing inside Pennsylvania outpaces its 38th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Clarion ranks 19,518 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,423 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 840 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Clarion and the insurance market
Clarion's moderate wildfire rating (38th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Clarion
Clarion's 89.7% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Clarion's 38th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Clarion, see the exposure-zones guide.