Dorseyville, PA
Dorseyville, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Dorseyville at the 35th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 529 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Dorseyville at the 35th national percentile — 0 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
529 buildings are counted in Dorseyville, and 68.6% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
How Dorseyville compares
Dorseyville scores 35th nationally and 50th 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, Dorseyville ranks 20,497 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,883 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 996 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Dorseyville and the insurance market
Dorseyville's moderate wildfire rating (35th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 68.6% of Dorseyville in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
Where Dorseyville's figures come from
Dorseyville's 35th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Dorseyville's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.