Intercourse, PA
Intercourse, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Intercourse's 850 buildings earn a 2nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Intercourse at the 2nd percentile, close to its 2nd-percentile risk score.
Intercourse's building exposure, zone by zone
Intercourse rates 69.9% Minimal exposure against just 30.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 850 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Intercourse against the rest of the country
Intercourse's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (0th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (2nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Intercourse ranks 30,937 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,160 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,988 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Intercourse
Intercourse's low wildfire rating (2nd 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
Intercourse's 69.9% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Intercourse's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 850 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Intercourse. The exposure-zones guide covers what Intercourse's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.