Hendersonville, PA
Hendersonville wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Hendersonville at the 29th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 187 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 Hendersonville at the 30th percentile, close to its 29th-percentile risk score.
Hendersonville's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Hendersonville's buildings (75.4%) 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.
How Hendersonville compares
There's little gap between Hendersonville's 29th national percentile and its 35th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hendersonville ranks 22,512 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,368 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,291 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Hendersonville
At the 29th national percentile, Hendersonville rates moderate 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
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Hendersonville (75.4% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Hendersonville's 29th-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 Hendersonville, see the exposure-zones guide.