Hop Bottom, PA
How exposed is Hop Bottom to wildfire?
Hop Bottom's 176 buildings earn a 44th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Hop Bottom at the 45th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Hop Bottom's buildings actually sit
Of Hop Bottom's 176 counted buildings, 58% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Hop Bottom against the rest of the country
Within Pennsylvania, Hop Bottom ranks higher (70th percentile) than it does nationally (44th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hop Bottom ranks 17,787 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,802 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 596 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Hop Bottom and the insurance market
Hop Bottom's elevated rating (44th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Hop Bottom
Because Direct exposure dominates in Hop Bottom (58%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Hop Bottom's 44th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Hop Bottom, see the exposure-zones guide.