Jacksonville (Indiana), PA
Jacksonville (Indiana) wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Jacksonville (Indiana) lands at the 41st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 416 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Jacksonville (Indiana)'s burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 41st percentile nationally.
Jacksonville (Indiana)'s building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Jacksonville (Indiana): 93.3% of its 416 buildings, versus 6.7% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Jacksonville (Indiana) compares
Within Pennsylvania, Jacksonville (Indiana) ranks higher (64th percentile) than it does nationally (41st) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Jacksonville (Indiana) ranks 18,703 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,913 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 709 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Jacksonville (Indiana)
At the 41st national percentile, Jacksonville (Indiana) rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Jacksonville (Indiana)'s 93.3% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Jacksonville (Indiana)'s 18,703-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Jacksonville (Indiana), see the exposure-zones guide.