WildfireRiskFinder

Duncansville, PA

Duncansville, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers

Moderate
33rdpercentile nationally

Duncansville's 654 buildings earn a 33rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)

USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Duncansville at the 33rd percentile, close to its 33rd-percentile risk score.

Duncansville's building exposure, zone by zone

654Total buildings
4.9%Direct exposure
46.3%Indirect exposure
48.8%Minimal exposure

Most of Duncansville's buildings (48.8% of 654) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.

How Duncansville compares

Duncansville scores 33rd nationally and 44th 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, Duncansville ranks 21,250 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,155 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,121 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.

What this risk score means for insurance

Duncansville's moderate rating (33rd 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 Duncansville

With 48.8% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Duncansville gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.

More on how this number was built

The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 654 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Duncansville. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Duncansville, see the exposure-zones guide.