Gilbertsville, PA
How exposed is Gilbertsville to wildfire?
USFS scores Gilbertsville at the 13th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 2,124 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Gilbertsville at the 12th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Gilbertsville's building exposure, zone by zone
2,124 buildings are counted in Gilbertsville, and 52.6% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 32.9% rated Minimal.
How Gilbertsville compares
Gilbertsville's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (11th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (13th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Gilbertsville ranks 27,557 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,134 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,769 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Gilbertsville
Gilbertsville's low rating (13th 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 Gilbertsville
Gilbertsville's 52.6% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,124 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Gilbertsville. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Gilbertsville, see the exposure-zones guide.