Johnstown, PA
Johnstown, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Johnstown's 8,400 buildings earn a 39th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Johnstown at the 38th percentile, close to its 39th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Johnstown's buildings (68%) 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. At 8,400 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Johnstown against the rest of the country
Within Pennsylvania, Johnstown ranks higher (60th percentile) than it does nationally (39th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Johnstown ranks 19,269 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,981 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 794 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Johnstown and the insurance market
At the 39th national percentile, Johnstown 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
Because 68% of Johnstown'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.
Where Johnstown's figures come from
Johnstown's 39th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Johnstown's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.