Midland (Beaver), PA
Midland (Beaver), PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Midland (Beaver) at the 39th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,099 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Midland (Beaver) at the 39th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Midland (Beaver)'s buildings actually sit
Indirect exposure is dominant in Midland (Beaver) (89.4% of 1,099 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 10.7% sit in the Direct zone.
Midland (Beaver) against the rest of the country
Compare Midland (Beaver)'s two percentiles: 60th within Pennsylvania, only 39th nationally — a gap of 21 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Midland (Beaver) ranks 19,301 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,280 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 799 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Midland (Beaver)
Midland (Beaver)'s moderate rating (39th 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
Midland (Beaver)'s 89.4% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Midland (Beaver)'s 19,301-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Midland (Beaver), see the exposure-zones guide.