Finleyville, PA
How exposed is Finleyville to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Finleyville at the 32nd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 241 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Finleyville at the 33rd percentile, close to its 32nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 96.3% of Finleyville's 241 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 3.7% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Finleyville against the rest of the country
Finleyville scores 32nd nationally and 42nd within Pennsylvania — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Finleyville ranks 21,535 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,442 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,153 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Finleyville
Finleyville's moderate rating (32nd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Finleyville's 96.3% 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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 241 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Finleyville. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Finleyville, see the exposure-zones guide.