Gap, PA
Gap, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Gap's 1,001 buildings earn a 6th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Gap at the 6th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Gap's buildings actually sit
1,001 buildings are counted in Gap, and 54.4% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 44.9% in Direct exposure or the 0.8% rated Minimal.
How Gap compares
There's little gap between Gap's 6th national percentile and its 3rd percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Gap ranks 29,578 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,927 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,926 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Gap and the insurance market
At the 6th national percentile, Gap rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Gap's 54.4% 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
Gap's 6th-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 Gap, see the exposure-zones guide.