Natrona Heights, PA
Natrona Heights wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Natrona Heights at the 29th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 3,473 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Natrona Heights's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 30th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 92.2% of Natrona Heights's 3,473 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 7.8% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Natrona Heights against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Natrona Heights's 29th national percentile and its 37th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Natrona Heights ranks 22,291 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,806 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,257 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Natrona Heights and the insurance market
At the 29th national percentile, Natrona Heights rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Natrona Heights (92.2% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Natrona Heights's 22,291-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Natrona Heights, see the exposure-zones guide.