Portage, PA
How exposed is Portage to wildfire?
Portage sits at the 29th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,318 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Portage at the 29th percentile, close to its 29th-percentile risk score.
Portage's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 94.3% of Portage's 1,318 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 5.7% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Portage compares
There's little gap between Portage's 29th national percentile and its 36th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Portage ranks 22,418 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,982 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,281 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Portage
At the 29th national percentile, Portage 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
Because 94.3% of Portage'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 Portage's 22,418-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Portage, see the exposure-zones guide.