Progress, PA
Progress, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Progress's 4,339 buildings earn a 20th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Progress's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 21st percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 8% of Progress's 4,339 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 92.1% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Progress against the rest of the country
Progress's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (22nd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (20th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Progress ranks 25,198 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,945 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,557 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Progress and the insurance market
Progress's moderate rating (20th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Progress's 92.1% 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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 4,339 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Progress. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Progress, see the exposure-zones guide.