Highspire, PA
Highspire, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Highspire at the 19th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 1,109 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 Highspire at the 19th percentile, close to its 19th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 60.3% of Highspire's 1,109 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 7% Direct and 32.6% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Highspire against the rest of the country
Highspire scores 19th nationally and 21st within Pennsylvania — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Highspire ranks 25,446 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,227 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,577 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Highspire
Highspire's low wildfire rating (19th 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
Highspire's 60.3% 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.
Where Highspire's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Highspire's 25,446-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Highspire's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.