Gibsonia, PA
Gibsonia, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Gibsonia's 1,467 buildings earn a 31st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Gibsonia at the 31st percentile, close to its 31st-percentile risk score.
Gibsonia's building exposure, zone by zone
95.8% of Gibsonia's 1,467 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 1,406 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 3.8% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0.4% are Minimal.
Gibsonia against the rest of the country
Gibsonia's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (40th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (31st) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Gibsonia ranks 21,786 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,328 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,189 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Gibsonia and the insurance market
Gibsonia's moderate rating (31st percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Gibsonia's 95.8% 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.
Where Gibsonia's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Gibsonia's 21,786-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Gibsonia's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.