Pennville, PA
Pennville, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Pennville at the 6th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 797 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Pennville at the 6th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Pennville's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 78.2% of Pennville's 797 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 21.8% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Pennville ranks
There's little gap between Pennville's 6th national percentile and its 3rd percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pennville ranks 29,670 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,666 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,929 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Pennville and the insurance market
Pennville's low wildfire rating (6th 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 Pennville
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Pennville (78.2% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Pennville's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pennville's 29,670-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Pennville's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.