Portland, PA
Portland, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Portland at the 39th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 274 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Portland at the 40th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Portland's buildings actually sit
Of Portland's 274 counted buildings, 50.7% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Portland against the rest of the country
Compare Portland's two percentiles: 60th within Pennsylvania, only 39th nationally — a gap of 21 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Portland ranks 19,239 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,407 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 792 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 39th national percentile, Portland rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Portland's 50.7% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 274 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Portland. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Portland, see the exposure-zones guide.