Hudson, PA
How exposed is Hudson to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Hudson at the 33rd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 697 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 Hudson at the 33rd percentile, close to its 33rd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
94.1% of Hudson's 697 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 5.9% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Hudson against the rest of the country
Hudson's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (45th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (33rd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hudson ranks 21,126 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,695 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,096 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Hudson
Hudson's moderate wildfire rating (33rd 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 94.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Hudson gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 697 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Hudson. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Hudson, see the exposure-zones guide.