Glen Hope, PA
Glen Hope, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Glen Hope at the 54th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 126 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Glen Hope at the 54th percentile, close to its 54th-percentile risk score.
Glen Hope's building exposure, zone by zone
126 buildings are counted in Glen Hope, and 70.6% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
How Glen Hope compares
Compare Glen Hope's two percentiles: 89th within Pennsylvania, only 54th nationally — a gap of 35 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Glen Hope ranks 14,602 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,915 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 223 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
Glen Hope's elevated rating (54th 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 Glen Hope
Glen Hope's 70.6% 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 126 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Glen Hope. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Glen Hope, see the exposure-zones guide.