Glenburn, PA
Glenburn wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Glenburn lands at the 52nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 601 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Glenburn at the 53rd percentile, close to its 52nd-percentile risk score.
Where Glenburn's buildings actually sit
93% of Glenburn's 601 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 559 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 7% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Glenburn against the rest of the country
Compare Glenburn's two percentiles: 87th within Pennsylvania, only 52nd nationally — a gap of 34 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Glenburn ranks 15,012 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,827 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 265 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Glenburn and the insurance market
Glenburn's elevated wildfire rating (52nd 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 Glenburn
Glenburn's 93% 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 601 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Glenburn. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Glenburn, see the exposure-zones guide.