Laboratory, PA
Laboratory wildfire risk explained
Laboratory sits at the 35th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 390 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Laboratory's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 37th percentile nationally.
Where Laboratory's buildings actually sit
390 buildings are counted in Laboratory, and 52.8% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 47.2% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Laboratory compares
Within Pennsylvania, Laboratory ranks higher (51st percentile) than it does nationally (35th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Laboratory ranks 20,400 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,415 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 981 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Laboratory
Laboratory's moderate wildfire rating (35th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 52.8% of Laboratory'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
Laboratory's 35th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Laboratory, see the exposure-zones guide.