Hydetown, PA
How exposed is Hydetown to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Hydetown at the 40th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 419 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 Hydetown at the 41st percentile, close to its 40th-percentile risk score.
Hydetown's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 79.5% of Hydetown's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 20.5% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 333 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Hydetown ranks
Compare Hydetown's two percentiles: 62nd within Pennsylvania, only 40th nationally — a gap of 22 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hydetown ranks 18,982 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,844 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 756 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Hydetown and the insurance market
At the 40th national percentile, Hydetown rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Hydetown's 79.5% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 419 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Hydetown. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Hydetown, see the exposure-zones guide.