Goldsboro, PA
Goldsboro wildfire risk explained
Goldsboro's 404 buildings earn a 17th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Goldsboro at the 16th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Goldsboro's buildings (62.4%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Where Goldsboro ranks
There's little gap between Goldsboro's 17th national percentile and its 18th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Goldsboro ranks 26,043 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,142 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,624 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Goldsboro and the insurance market
Goldsboro's low wildfire rating (17th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Goldsboro's 62.4% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 404 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Goldsboro. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Goldsboro, see the exposure-zones guide.