East Side, PA
How exposed is East Side to wildfire?
East Side's 182 buildings earn a 65th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, East Side's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 64th percentile nationally.
Where East Side's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 83.5% of East Side's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 16.5% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 152 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where East Side ranks
East Side's 99th-percentile standing inside Pennsylvania outpaces its 65th 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 Side ranks 11,199 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,565 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 26 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
East Side and the insurance market
East Side's 65th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
East Side's 83.5% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
East Side's 65th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond East Side, see the exposure-zones guide.