Kennerdell, PA
Kennerdell, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Kennerdell's 280 buildings earn a 43rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Kennerdell at the 42nd percentile, close to its 43rd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
280 buildings are counted in Kennerdell, and 80% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 3.9% rated Minimal.
How Kennerdell compares
Kennerdell's 68th-percentile standing inside Pennsylvania outpaces its 43rd national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kennerdell ranks 18,104 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,203 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 630 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Kennerdell
Kennerdell's elevated rating (43rd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Kennerdell
Kennerdell's 80% 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 Kennerdell's 18,104-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Kennerdell, see the exposure-zones guide.