Freeburg, PA
Freeburg wildfire risk explained
Freeburg's 359 buildings earn a 36th-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.)
Separately from the risk score above, Freeburg's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 35th percentile nationally.
Freeburg's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Freeburg (90.8% of 359 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 9.2% sit in the Direct zone.
How Freeburg compares
Compare Freeburg's two percentiles: 52nd 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, Freeburg ranks 20,245 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,098 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 957 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Freeburg
Freeburg's moderate rating (36th 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
Because 90.8% of Freeburg'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
Freeburg's 36th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Freeburg, see the exposure-zones guide.