East Berwick, PA
East Berwick, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, East Berwick lands at the 40th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 1,004 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 Berwick at the 41st percentile, close to its 40th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
88.1% of East Berwick's 1,004 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 2.9% Direct and 9.1% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where East Berwick ranks
East Berwick's 64th-percentile standing inside Pennsylvania outpaces its 40th 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, East Berwick ranks 18,794 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,907 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 716 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
East Berwick and the insurance market
East Berwick's elevated wildfire rating (40th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in East Berwick (88.1% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind East Berwick's 18,794-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 Berwick, see the exposure-zones guide.