Hokendauqua, PA
Hokendauqua wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Hokendauqua at the 14th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 1,340 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 Hokendauqua at the 14th percentile, close to its 14th-percentile risk score.
Hokendauqua's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Hokendauqua's buildings (94.6% of 1,340) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Where Hokendauqua ranks
Hokendauqua scores 14th nationally and 13th 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, Hokendauqua ranks 27,081 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,882 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,728 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Hokendauqua and the insurance market
Hokendauqua's low wildfire rating (14th 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
Hokendauqua's 94.6% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Hokendauqua's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Hokendauqua's 27,081-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Hokendauqua's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.