Crabtree, PA
Crabtree wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Crabtree lands at the 22nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 144 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Crabtree at the 23rd national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Crabtree's buildings actually sit
Most of Crabtree's buildings (90.3%) 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.
Where Crabtree ranks
Crabtree's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (24th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (22nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Crabtree ranks 24,688 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,133 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,515 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Crabtree
Crabtree's moderate wildfire rating (22nd 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Crabtree (90.3% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 144 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Crabtree. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Crabtree, see the exposure-zones guide.