Hooversville, PA
How exposed is Hooversville to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Hooversville at the 48th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 440 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Hooversville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 47th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
440 buildings are counted in Hooversville, and 57.7% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 42.3% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Hooversville compares
Hooversville's 77th-percentile standing inside Pennsylvania outpaces its 48th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hooversville ranks 16,493 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,466 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 454 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Hooversville and the insurance market
At the 48th national percentile, Hooversville rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Hooversville
Because 57.7% of Hooversville'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 Hooversville's 16,493-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Hooversville, see the exposure-zones guide.