East Prospect, PA
East Prospect wildfire risk explained
USFS scores East Prospect at the 14th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 350 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, East Prospect's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 12th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in East Prospect (57.4% of 350 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 42.6% sit in the Direct zone.
Where East Prospect ranks
East Prospect scores 14th nationally and 13th within Pennsylvania — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, East Prospect ranks 27,145 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,317 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,730 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
East Prospect and the insurance market
East Prospect's low rating (14th 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 Prospect
Because 57.4% of East Prospect'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
East Prospect's 14th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond East Prospect, see the exposure-zones guide.