Coal Center, PA
Coal Center, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Coal Center at the 33rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 104 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Coal Center at the 35th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
104 buildings are counted in Coal Center, and 89.4% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 9.6% in Direct exposure or the 1% rated Minimal.
Coal Center against the rest of the country
Coal Center scores 33rd nationally and 45th 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, Coal Center ranks 21,124 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,865 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,094 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Coal Center and the insurance market
Coal Center's moderate wildfire rating (33rd 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 Coal Center
Because 89.4% of Coal Center'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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Coal Center's 21,124-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Coal Center, see the exposure-zones guide.