Point View, PA
Point View, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Point View's 13 buildings earn a 54th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Point View's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 52nd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
13 buildings are counted in Point View, and 100% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal. This is a small settlement by building count — 13 total — so these shares describe a handful of structures, not a statistical average across thousands.
How Point View compares
Within Pennsylvania, Point View ranks higher (90th percentile) than it does nationally (54th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Point View ranks 14,414 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,502 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 202 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
Point View's elevated wildfire rating (54th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 100% of Point View 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.
Where Point View's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 13 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Point View. Small places like Point View (13 buildings) are exactly where USFS's underlying data gets sparsest — see the data-quality guide for the 517 places that didn't clear the bar.