Orbisonia, PA
Orbisonia wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Orbisonia lands at the 53rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 256 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Orbisonia at the 52nd percentile, close to its 53rd-percentile risk score.
Orbisonia's building exposure, zone by zone
256 buildings are counted in Orbisonia, and 99.2% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 0.8% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Orbisonia compares
Compare Orbisonia's two percentiles: 87th within Pennsylvania, only 53rd nationally — a gap of 35 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Orbisonia ranks 14,885 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,957 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 251 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Orbisonia
At the 53rd national percentile, Orbisonia rates elevated 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 Orbisonia
Orbisonia's 99.2% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 256 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Orbisonia. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Orbisonia, see the exposure-zones guide.