Pughtown, PA
Pughtown wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Pughtown at the 16th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 267 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Pughtown at the 14th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Pughtown's 267 counted buildings, 51.3% 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.
Where Pughtown ranks
Pughtown scores 16th nationally and 16th 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, Pughtown ranks 26,612 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,610 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,685 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Pughtown
Pughtown's low rating (16th 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 Pughtown
With 51.3% of Pughtown in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
Where Pughtown's figures come from
Pughtown's 16th-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 Pughtown's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.