Columbus, PA
How exposed is Columbus to wildfire?
Columbus's 460 buildings earn a 39th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Columbus at the 39th percentile, close to its 39th-percentile risk score.
Columbus's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Columbus: 74.6% of its 460 buildings, versus 25.4% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Columbus ranks
Columbus's 59th-percentile standing inside Pennsylvania outpaces its 39th 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, Columbus ranks 19,390 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,066 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 815 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Columbus
Columbus's moderate wildfire rating (39th 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 Columbus
Columbus's 74.6% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Columbus's 39th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Columbus, see the exposure-zones guide.