Karns City, PA
Karns City, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Karns City at the 40th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 263 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 Karns City at the 40th percentile, close to its 40th-percentile risk score.
Karns City's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Karns City (73% of 263 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 27% sit in the Direct zone.
Where Karns City ranks
Compare Karns City's two percentiles: 63rd within Pennsylvania, only 40th nationally — a gap of 23 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Karns City ranks 18,887 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,750 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 737 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Karns City
At the 40th national percentile, Karns City 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
Because 73% of Karns City'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 Karns City's 18,887-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Karns City, see the exposure-zones guide.