Forty Fort, PA
Forty Fort wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Forty Fort at the 39th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 2,323 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 Forty Fort at the 38th percentile, close to its 39th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Forty Fort's buildings (56.5%) 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.
Forty Fort against the rest of the country
Forty Fort's 61st-percentile standing inside Pennsylvania outpaces its 39th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Forty Fort ranks 19,206 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,658 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 786 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Forty Fort and the insurance market
Forty Fort's moderate rating (39th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Forty Fort
Forty Fort's 56.5% 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 2,323 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Forty Fort. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Forty Fort, see the exposure-zones guide.