Geistown, PA
How exposed is Geistown to wildfire?
USFS scores Geistown at the 30th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 1,296 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Geistown's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 30th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 67.8% of Geistown's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 32.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Geistown ranks
There's little gap between Geistown's 30th national percentile and its 38th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Geistown ranks 22,072 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,094 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,227 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Geistown and the insurance market
Geistown's moderate wildfire rating (30th 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.
Hardening a home in Geistown
Even with 67.8% of Geistown outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where Geistown's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Geistown's 22,072-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Geistown's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.