East Altoona, PA
East Altoona, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, East Altoona lands at the 43rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 222 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 East Altoona at the 42nd percentile, close to its 43rd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
76.1% of East Altoona's 222 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 23.9% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
East Altoona against the rest of the country
Compare East Altoona's two percentiles: 68th within Pennsylvania, only 43rd nationally — a gap of 26 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, East Altoona ranks 18,130 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,061 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 634 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in East Altoona
East Altoona's elevated rating (43rd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 76.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, East Altoona 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind East Altoona's 18,130-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond East Altoona, see the exposure-zones guide.