Mocanaqua, PA
Mocanaqua, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Mocanaqua at the 61st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 363 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Mocanaqua at the 60th percentile, close to its 61st-percentile risk score.
Mocanaqua's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 77.7% of Mocanaqua's 363 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 19.8% Direct and 2.5% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Mocanaqua compares
Mocanaqua's 97th-percentile standing inside Pennsylvania outpaces its 61st national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mocanaqua ranks 12,205 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,007 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 61 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Mocanaqua and the insurance market
Mocanaqua's 61st-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in Mocanaqua
Mocanaqua's 77.7% 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.
Where Mocanaqua's figures come from
Mocanaqua's 61st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Mocanaqua's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.