Grier City, PA
Grier City, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Grier City at the 56th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 214 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Grier City at the 55th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Grier City's buildings actually sit
Of Grier City's 214 counted buildings, 99.5% 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 Grier City ranks
Grier City's 92nd-percentile standing inside Pennsylvania outpaces its 56th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Grier City ranks 13,778 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,343 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 151 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
Grier City's elevated wildfire rating (56th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Grier City (99.5%), 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 Grier City's 13,778-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Grier City, see the exposure-zones guide.