Modena, PA
Modena, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Modena at the 21st national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 214 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Modena at the 20th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Modena's 214 counted buildings, 58.4% 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.
Where Modena ranks
There's little gap between Modena's 21st national percentile and its 23rd percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Modena ranks 24,974 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,344 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,543 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Modena
Modena's moderate wildfire rating (21st 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.
Hardening a home in Modena
Modena's 58.4% 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
Modena's 21st-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 Modena, see the exposure-zones guide.