Locustdale, PA
Locustdale, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Locustdale's 83 buildings earn a 59th-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.)
Separately from the risk score above, Locustdale's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 57th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
83 buildings are counted in Locustdale, and 96.4% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Where Locustdale ranks
Locustdale's 95th-percentile standing inside Pennsylvania outpaces its 59th 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, Locustdale ranks 12,928 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,781 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 96 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Locustdale and the insurance market
Locustdale's elevated rating (59th 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 Locustdale
Locustdale's 96.4% 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 Locustdale's 12,928-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Locustdale, see the exposure-zones guide.