Jefferson (Greene), PA
Jefferson (Greene) wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Jefferson (Greene) lands at the 39th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 216 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Jefferson (Greene) at the 40th percentile, close to its 39th-percentile risk score.
Where Jefferson (Greene)'s buildings actually sit
Most of Jefferson (Greene)'s buildings (91.2%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Jefferson (Greene) against the rest of the country
Compare Jefferson (Greene)'s two percentiles: 60th within Pennsylvania, only 39th nationally — a gap of 21 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Jefferson (Greene) ranks 19,331 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,285 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 802 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
Jefferson (Greene)'s moderate wildfire rating (39th 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.
Hardening a home in Jefferson (Greene)
Because 91.2% of Jefferson (Greene)'s buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Jefferson (Greene)'s 19,331-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Jefferson (Greene), see the exposure-zones guide.