Continental Courts, PA
Continental Courts, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Continental Courts sits at the 53rd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 432 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Continental Courts at the 52nd percentile, close to its 53rd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Continental Courts (94.2% of 432 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 5.8% sit in the Direct zone.
How Continental Courts compares
Compare Continental Courts's two percentiles: 88th within Pennsylvania, only 53rd nationally — a gap of 35 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Continental Courts ranks 14,790 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,610 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 241 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Continental Courts and the insurance market
Continental Courts's elevated rating (53rd 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 Continental Courts
Because 94.2% of Continental Courts'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
Continental Courts's 53rd-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 Continental Courts, see the exposure-zones guide.