North Bend, PA
North Bend, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores North Bend at the 59th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 279 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 North Bend at the 57th percentile, close to its 59th-percentile risk score.
Where North Bend's buildings actually sit
279 buildings are counted in North Bend, and 67% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
North Bend against the rest of the country
North Bend's 95th-percentile standing inside Pennsylvania outpaces its 59th 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, North Bend ranks 12,931 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,236 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 99 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in North Bend
North Bend's elevated wildfire rating (59th 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 North Bend
With 67% of North Bend in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind North Bend's 12,931-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond North Bend, see the exposure-zones guide.