Dudley, PA
Dudley, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Dudley at the 49th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 146 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Dudley at the 48th percentile, close to its 49th-percentile risk score.
Dudley's building exposure, zone by zone
146 buildings are counted in Dudley, and 83.6% 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 Dudley compares
Compare Dudley's two percentiles: 81st within Pennsylvania, only 49th nationally — a gap of 31 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dudley ranks 16,019 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,041 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 390 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Dudley and the insurance market
Dudley's elevated rating (49th 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 Dudley
Because Direct exposure dominates in Dudley (83.6%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Dudley's 16,019-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Dudley, see the exposure-zones guide.