Forestville (Butler), PA
Forestville (Butler), PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Forestville (Butler)'s 202 buildings earn a 33rd-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 Forestville (Butler) at the 33rd national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Forestville (Butler)'s building exposure, zone by zone
Of Forestville (Butler)'s 202 counted buildings, 95.1% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Forestville (Butler) compares
There's little gap between Forestville (Butler)'s 33rd national percentile and its 45th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Forestville (Butler) ranks 21,095 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,781 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,088 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
Forestville (Butler)'s moderate wildfire rating (33rd 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 95.1% of Forestville (Butler) in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Forestville (Butler)'s 33rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Forestville (Butler), see the exposure-zones guide.