East Marianna, PA
East Marianna wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts East Marianna at the 39th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 180 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 Marianna at the 41st percentile, close to its 39th-percentile risk score.
Where East Marianna's buildings actually sit
Most of East Marianna's buildings (69.4%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Where East Marianna ranks
Within Pennsylvania, East Marianna ranks higher (59th percentile) than it does nationally (39th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, East Marianna ranks 19,391 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,648 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 816 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
East Marianna and the insurance market
East Marianna's moderate wildfire rating (39th 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 Marianna (69.4% 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 Marianna's 19,391-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 Marianna, see the exposure-zones guide.