Grassflat, PA
How exposed is Grassflat to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Grassflat lands at the 52nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 387 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Grassflat at the 52nd national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Grassflat's buildings actually sit
Of Grassflat's 387 counted buildings, 91.2% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Grassflat ranks
Compare Grassflat's two percentiles: 85th 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, Grassflat ranks 15,234 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,473 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 292 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Grassflat and the insurance market
At the 52nd national percentile, Grassflat rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Grassflat
Because Direct exposure dominates in Grassflat (91.2%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Grassflat's 15,234-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Grassflat, see the exposure-zones guide.