Port Allegany, PA
Port Allegany wildfire risk explained
Port Allegany's 1,168 buildings earn a 19th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Port Allegany at the 19th percentile, close to its 19th-percentile risk score.
Where Port Allegany's buildings actually sit
1,168 buildings are counted in Port Allegany, and 75.7% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 24.3% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Where Port Allegany ranks
There's little gap between Port Allegany's 19th national percentile and its 20th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Port Allegany ranks 25,668 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,851 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,598 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 19th national percentile, Port Allegany rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Port Allegany's 75.7% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Port Allegany's 25,668-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Port Allegany, see the exposure-zones guide.