Marienville, PA
Marienville, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Marienville at the 17th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 863 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Marienville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 17th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
73.5% of Marienville's 863 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 634 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 26.5% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where Marienville ranks
There's little gap between Marienville's 17th national percentile and its 18th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Marienville ranks 26,174 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,051 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,638 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Marienville's low rating (17th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Marienville's 73.5% 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
Marienville's 17th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Marienville, see the exposure-zones guide.