Huntingdon, PA
Huntingdon wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Huntingdon at the 51st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 2,165 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Huntingdon at the 50th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Huntingdon's buildings actually sit
71.9% of Huntingdon's 2,165 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 28.1% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Huntingdon against the rest of the country
Within Pennsylvania, Huntingdon ranks higher (83rd percentile) than it does nationally (51st) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Huntingdon ranks 15,576 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,030 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 340 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Huntingdon's elevated wildfire rating (51st 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Huntingdon's 71.9% 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
Huntingdon's 51st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Huntingdon, see the exposure-zones guide.