Pomeroy, PA
Pomeroy, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Pomeroy lands at the 12th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 291 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Pomeroy at the 10th percentile, close to its 12th-percentile risk score.
Where Pomeroy's buildings actually sit
70.8% of Pomeroy's 291 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 29.2% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where Pomeroy ranks
There's little gap between Pomeroy's 12th national percentile and its 10th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pomeroy ranks 27,905 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,894 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,793 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
Pomeroy's low wildfire rating (12th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 70.8% of Pomeroy's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pomeroy's 27,905-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Pomeroy, see the exposure-zones guide.