Gastonville, PA
How exposed is Gastonville to wildfire?
Gastonville sits at the 31st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,652 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Gastonville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 32nd percentile nationally.
Where Gastonville's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Gastonville: 43.8% of its 1,652 buildings, versus 31.4% Indirect and 24.8% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Gastonville against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Gastonville's 31st national percentile and its 40th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Gastonville ranks 21,818 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,591 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,194 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Gastonville's moderate wildfire rating (31st 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Gastonville's 43.8% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Gastonville's 21,818-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Gastonville, see the exposure-zones guide.