Greensboro, PA
How exposed is Greensboro to wildfire?
Greensboro sits at the 39th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 178 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Greensboro at the 41st percentile, close to its 39th-percentile risk score.
Greensboro's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 92.7% of Greensboro's 178 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 7.3% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Greensboro compares
Compare Greensboro's two percentiles: 60th within Pennsylvania, only 39th nationally — a gap of 21 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Greensboro ranks 19,299 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,727 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 797 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
At the 39th national percentile, Greensboro rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 92.7% of Greensboro's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Greensboro's 39th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Greensboro, see the exposure-zones guide.