Duryea, PA
Duryea, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Duryea lands at the 51st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 2,603 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Duryea at the 50th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Duryea's building exposure, zone by zone
80.5% of Duryea's 2,603 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 7.5% Direct and 12% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Duryea against the rest of the country
Duryea's 85th-percentile standing inside Pennsylvania outpaces its 51st 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, Duryea ranks 15,328 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,090 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 304 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Duryea and the insurance market
At the 51st national percentile, Duryea rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Duryea
Because 80.5% of Duryea's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Duryea's 15,328-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Duryea, see the exposure-zones guide.