Platea, PA
Platea, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Platea at the 35th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 338 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 Platea at the 35th percentile, close to its 35th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Platea's 338 counted buildings, 95.3% 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.
Platea against the rest of the country
Platea's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (49th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (35th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Platea ranks 20,557 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,645 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,010 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
At the 35th national percentile, Platea rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Platea's 95.3% 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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 338 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Platea. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Platea, see the exposure-zones guide.