Evans City, PA
Evans City wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Evans City at the 36th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 948 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Evans City's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 37th percentile nationally.
Evans City's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 78.4% of Evans City's 948 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 21.6% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Evans City against the rest of the country
Compare Evans City's two percentiles: 53rd within Pennsylvania, only 36th nationally — a gap of 17 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Evans City ranks 20,119 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,321 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 941 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Evans City
At the 36th national percentile, Evans City 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 Evans City
Because 78.4% of Evans City'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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Evans City's 20,119-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Evans City, see the exposure-zones guide.