Marklesburg, PA
Marklesburg, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Marklesburg lands at the 51st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 223 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Marklesburg at the 50th percentile, close to its 51st-percentile risk score.
Marklesburg's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Marklesburg's 223 counted buildings, 50.2% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Marklesburg compares
Compare Marklesburg's two percentiles: 84th within Pennsylvania, only 51st nationally — a gap of 33 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Marklesburg ranks 15,358 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,032 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 312 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
Marklesburg's elevated wildfire rating (51st 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
Marklesburg's 50.2% 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
Marklesburg's 51st-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 Marklesburg, see the exposure-zones guide.