Fredericktown, PA
Fredericktown wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Fredericktown 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 245 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Fredericktown's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 37th percentile nationally.
Where Fredericktown's buildings actually sit
Most of Fredericktown's buildings (62.9%) 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.
Fredericktown against the rest of the country
Compare Fredericktown's two percentiles: 51st within Pennsylvania, only 36th nationally — a gap of 16 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fredericktown ranks 20,343 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,312 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 973 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Fredericktown
Fredericktown's moderate wildfire rating (36th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Fredericktown's 62.9% 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 245 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Fredericktown. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Fredericktown, see the exposure-zones guide.