Eddington, PA
Eddington wildfire risk explained
Eddington sits at the 40th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 950 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Eddington at the 42nd percentile, close to its 40th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Eddington's buildings (85.8% of 950) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Where Eddington ranks
Within Pennsylvania, Eddington ranks higher (62nd percentile) than it does nationally (40th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Eddington ranks 19,017 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,309 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 761 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Eddington and the insurance market
Eddington's moderate wildfire rating (40th 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
Even with 85.8% of Eddington outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Eddington's 40th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Eddington, see the exposure-zones guide.