Friedensburg, PA
How exposed is Friedensburg to wildfire?
USFS scores Friedensburg at the 45th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 601 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Friedensburg at the 45th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Friedensburg's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 53.7% of Friedensburg's 601 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 46.3% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Friedensburg against the rest of the country
Within Pennsylvania, Friedensburg ranks higher (72nd percentile) than it does nationally (45th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Friedensburg ranks 17,438 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,826 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 561 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Friedensburg and the insurance market
Friedensburg's elevated rating (45th 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 Friedensburg
Because 53.7% of Friedensburg'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.
Where Friedensburg's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Friedensburg's 17,438-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Friedensburg's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.