Freemansburg, PA
Freemansburg wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Freemansburg at the 15th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 765 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Freemansburg at the 15th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Freemansburg's buildings (86.3%) 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.
Freemansburg against the rest of the country
Freemansburg scores 15th nationally and 15th within Pennsylvania — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Freemansburg ranks 26,735 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,965 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,695 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Freemansburg
At the 15th national percentile, Freemansburg rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 86.3% of Freemansburg'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
Freemansburg's 15th-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 Freemansburg, see the exposure-zones guide.