Oakdale, PA
Oakdale wildfire risk explained
Oakdale's 734 buildings earn a 35th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Oakdale at the 36th national percentile — 1 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
734 buildings are counted in Oakdale, and 77% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 23% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Oakdale compares
Oakdale's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (50th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (35th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Oakdale ranks 20,528 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,288 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,004 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Oakdale and the insurance market
At the 35th national percentile, Oakdale rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Oakdale
Oakdale's 77% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Oakdale's 20,528-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Oakdale, see the exposure-zones guide.