Lower Burrell, PA
Lower Burrell wildfire risk explained
Lower Burrell's 5,647 buildings earn a 31st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Lower Burrell at the 31st national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Lower Burrell's buildings actually sit
Most of Lower Burrell's buildings (76.1%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone. At 5,647 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Lower Burrell against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Lower Burrell's 31st national percentile and its 40th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lower Burrell ranks 21,851 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,063 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,204 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Lower Burrell
Lower Burrell's moderate rating (31st percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 76.1% of Lower Burrell'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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lower Burrell's 21,851-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Lower Burrell, see the exposure-zones guide.