Linesville, PA
Linesville wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Linesville at the 34th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 587 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Linesville at the 35th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Linesville's buildings actually sit
62.5% of Linesville's 587 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 37.5% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where Linesville ranks
Linesville's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (48th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (34th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Linesville ranks 20,750 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,012 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,039 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Linesville and the insurance market
Linesville's moderate wildfire rating (34th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Linesville's 62.5% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Linesville's 34th-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 Linesville, see the exposure-zones guide.