Koppel, PA
Koppel wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Koppel at the 36th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 520 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Koppel at the 37th percentile, close to its 36th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Koppel (94.4% of 520 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 5.6% sit in the Direct zone.
How Koppel compares
Compare Koppel's two percentiles: 54th within Pennsylvania, only 36th nationally — a gap of 17 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Koppel ranks 20,058 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,024 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 928 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Koppel
At the 36th national percentile, Koppel rates moderate 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
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Koppel (94.4% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Koppel's 20,058-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Koppel, see the exposure-zones guide.