Driftwood, PA
Driftwood, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Driftwood at the 60th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 122 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Driftwood at the 58th percentile, close to its 60th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Driftwood: 61.5% of its 122 buildings, versus 38.5% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Driftwood compares
Driftwood's 97th-percentile standing inside Pennsylvania outpaces its 60th 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, Driftwood ranks 12,554 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,083 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 70 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Driftwood and the insurance market
Driftwood's 60th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
What would actually reduce this score
Driftwood's 61.5% 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
Driftwood's 60th-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 Driftwood, see the exposure-zones guide.