Franklin (Venango), PA
Franklin (Venango), PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Franklin (Venango) at the 33rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 3,020 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Franklin (Venango) at the 32nd national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
3,020 buildings are counted in Franklin (Venango), and 83.3% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 16.8% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Where Franklin (Venango) ranks
There's little gap between Franklin (Venango)'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, Franklin (Venango) ranks 21,063 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,398 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,085 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
Franklin (Venango)'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.
Hardening a home in Franklin (Venango)
Because 83.3% of Franklin (Venango)'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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 3,020 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Franklin (Venango). For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Franklin (Venango), see the exposure-zones guide.