Milesburg, PA
How exposed is Milesburg to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Milesburg lands at the 53rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 592 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Milesburg's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 51st percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Milesburg's buildings (86.5%) 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.
Milesburg against the rest of the country
Compare Milesburg's two percentiles: 88th within Pennsylvania, only 53rd nationally — a gap of 35 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Milesburg ranks 14,821 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,943 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 246 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
Milesburg's elevated wildfire rating (53rd 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 86.5% of Milesburg'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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 592 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Milesburg. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Milesburg, see the exposure-zones guide.