Park Forest Village, PA
Park Forest Village, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Park Forest Village lands at the 43rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 2,753 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Park Forest Village's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 42nd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Park Forest Village's 2,753 counted buildings, 52.6% carry Direct exposure and only 3.9% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Park Forest Village compares
Park Forest Village's 69th-percentile standing inside Pennsylvania outpaces its 43rd 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, Park Forest Village ranks 18,006 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,848 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 622 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
Park Forest Village's elevated wildfire rating (43rd 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 Park Forest Village
With 52.6% of Park Forest Village 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
Park Forest Village's 43rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Park Forest Village, see the exposure-zones guide.