Collinsburg, PA
Collinsburg wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Collinsburg at the 30th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 693 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Collinsburg's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 31st percentile nationally.
Collinsburg's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 50.4% of Collinsburg's 693 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 49.6% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Collinsburg compares
There's little gap between Collinsburg's 30th national percentile and its 37th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Collinsburg ranks 22,201 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,740 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,247 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
Collinsburg's moderate rating (30th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Collinsburg
Collinsburg's 50.4% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Collinsburg's 22,201-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Collinsburg, see the exposure-zones guide.