East Waterford, PA
How exposed is East Waterford to wildfire?
USFS scores East Waterford at the 52nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 182 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (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 Waterford at the 51st percentile, close to its 52nd-percentile risk score.
Where East Waterford's buildings actually sit
Most of East Waterford's buildings (67%) 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.
How East Waterford compares
Compare East Waterford's two percentiles: 87th within Pennsylvania, only 52nd nationally — a gap of 34 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, East Waterford ranks 15,045 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,566 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 267 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
East Waterford and the insurance market
At the 52nd national percentile, East Waterford rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 67% of East Waterford'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 182 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for East Waterford. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond East Waterford, see the exposure-zones guide.