East Brady, PA
East Brady wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts East Brady at the 43rd national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 630 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 Brady at the 42nd percentile, close to its 43rd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in East Brady (79.8% of 630 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 18.6% sit in the Direct zone.
How East Brady compares
East Brady's 69th-percentile standing inside Pennsylvania outpaces its 43rd 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 Brady ranks 18,004 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,452 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 620 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
East Brady and the insurance market
East Brady'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.
Hardening a home in East Brady
Because 79.8% of East Brady'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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 630 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for East Brady. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond East Brady, see the exposure-zones guide.