Newburg (Clearfield), PA
How exposed is Newburg (Clearfield) to wildfire?
USFS scores Newburg (Clearfield) at the 53rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 77 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Newburg (Clearfield) at the 53rd national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Newburg (Clearfield)'s buildings actually sit
Of Newburg (Clearfield)'s 77 counted buildings, 100% 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.
Newburg (Clearfield) against the rest of the country
Newburg (Clearfield)'s 88th-percentile standing inside Pennsylvania outpaces its 53rd 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, Newburg (Clearfield) ranks 14,762 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,028 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 238 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
Newburg (Clearfield)'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.
Hardening a home in Newburg (Clearfield)
Newburg (Clearfield)'s 100% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Newburg (Clearfield)'s 14,762-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Newburg (Clearfield), see the exposure-zones guide.