Pine Ridge, PA
Pine Ridge wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Pine Ridge at the 61st national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 1,182 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Pine Ridge at the 61st percentile, close to its 61st-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Pine Ridge's 1,182 counted buildings, 99.2% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Pine Ridge compares
Pine Ridge's 97th-percentile standing inside Pennsylvania outpaces its 61st 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, Pine Ridge ranks 12,177 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,756 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 60 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Pine Ridge
At the 61st percentile nationally, Pine Ridge carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Hardening a home in Pine Ridge
With 99.2% of Pine Ridge 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pine Ridge's 12,177-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Pine Ridge, see the exposure-zones guide.