Old Orchard, PA
Old Orchard, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Old Orchard at the 26th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 1,029 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Old Orchard at the 25th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Old Orchard's 1,029 counted buildings, 42.6% carry Direct exposure and only 33.6% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Old Orchard against the rest of the country
Old Orchard's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (31st percentile statewide) as it does nationally (26th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Old Orchard ranks 23,306 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,732 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,377 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Old Orchard
Old Orchard's moderate wildfire rating (26th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Old Orchard's 42.6% 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.
Where Old Orchard's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Old Orchard's 23,306-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Old Orchard's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.