Hometown, PA
Hometown, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Hometown lands at the 65th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 818 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Hometown's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 64th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
65.3% of Hometown's 818 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 34.7% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Hometown compares
Within Pennsylvania, Hometown ranks higher (99th percentile) than it does nationally (65th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hometown ranks 10,976 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,477 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 20 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Hometown
Hometown's high rating (65th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 65.3% of Hometown's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Hometown's 10,976-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Hometown, see the exposure-zones guide.