Homer City, PA
Homer City, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Homer City lands at the 42nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 982 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Homer City's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 42nd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Homer City's buildings (95%) 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 Homer City compares
Within Pennsylvania, Homer City ranks higher (66th percentile) than it does nationally (42nd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Homer City ranks 18,387 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,060 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 680 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Homer City
Homer City's elevated rating (42nd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Homer City's 95% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Homer City's 18,387-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Homer City, see the exposure-zones guide.