DuBois, PA
DuBois wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, DuBois lands at the 31st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 3,903 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts DuBois at the 32nd percentile, close to its 31st-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
88.9% of DuBois's 3,903 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 8.3% Direct and 2.8% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where DuBois ranks
DuBois scores 31st nationally and 41st 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, DuBois ranks 21,726 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,336 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,179 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in DuBois
DuBois's moderate rating (31st percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
DuBois's 88.9% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind DuBois's 21,726-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond DuBois, see the exposure-zones guide.