Port Vue, PA
How exposed is Port Vue to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Port Vue at the 24th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,943 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 Port Vue at the 25th percentile, close to its 24th-percentile risk score.
Where Port Vue's buildings actually sit
Only 3.5% of Port Vue's 1,943 buildings carry Direct exposure and 28% carry Indirect; the remaining 68.6% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Port Vue against the rest of the country
Port Vue's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (27th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (24th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Port Vue ranks 24,031 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,637 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,448 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 24th national percentile, Port Vue rates moderate 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 Vue's 68.6% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Port Vue's figures come from
Port Vue's 24th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Port Vue's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.