Mountville, PA
Mountville wildfire risk explained
Mountville's 893 buildings earn a 4th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Mountville at the 4th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
83.7% of Mountville's 893 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 16.4% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Mountville compares
There's little gap between Mountville's 4th national percentile and its 1st percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mountville ranks 30,401 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,786 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,969 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
Mountville's low rating (4th 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
Mountville's 83.7% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Mountville's 30,401-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Mountville, see the exposure-zones guide.