Hegins, PA
Hegins wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Hegins at the 53rd national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 571 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Hegins at the 51st percentile, close to its 53rd-percentile risk score.
Where Hegins's buildings actually sit
Most of Hegins's buildings (54.6%) 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.
How Hegins compares
Within Pennsylvania, Hegins ranks higher (87th percentile) than it does nationally (53rd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hegins ranks 14,916 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,239 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 255 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 53rd national percentile, Hegins rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Hegins's 54.6% 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
Hegins's 53rd-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 Hegins, see the exposure-zones guide.