Easton, PA
Easton wildfire risk explained
Easton's 6,580 buildings earn a 23rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Easton at the 22nd national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Easton's buildings (49.1%) 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. At 6,580 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Easton against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Easton's 23rd national percentile and its 26th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Easton ranks 24,187 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,635 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,465 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 23rd national percentile, Easton rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Easton
Easton's 49.1% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Easton's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 6,580 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Easton. The exposure-zones guide covers what Easton's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.