Portersville, PA
Portersville wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Portersville lands at the 35th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 216 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 Portersville at the 35th percentile, close to its 35th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Portersville: 59.7% of its 216 buildings, versus 40.3% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Portersville against the rest of the country
Portersville scores 35th nationally and 49th within Pennsylvania — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Portersville ranks 20,653 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,286 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,027 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Portersville and the insurance market
Portersville's moderate rating (35th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Portersville
Because Direct exposure dominates in Portersville (59.7%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Portersville's 20,653-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Portersville, see the exposure-zones guide.