East Bangor, PA
How exposed is East Bangor to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts East Bangor at the 42nd national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 486 actual buildings. (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 Bangor at the 43rd percentile, close to its 42nd-percentile risk score.
East Bangor's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 55.6% of East Bangor's 486 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 44.4% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where East Bangor ranks
Compare East Bangor's two percentiles: 68th within Pennsylvania, only 42nd nationally — a gap of 25 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, East Bangor ranks 18,164 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,603 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 640 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
East Bangor's elevated rating (42nd 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 East Bangor
East Bangor's 55.6% 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 East Bangor's 18,164-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond East Bangor, see the exposure-zones guide.