Ranshaw, PA
Ranshaw wildfire risk explained
Ranshaw's 159 buildings earn a 59th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Ranshaw at the 57th percentile, close to its 59th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 97.5% of Ranshaw's 159 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 2.5% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Ranshaw ranks
Compare Ranshaw's two percentiles: 95th within Pennsylvania, only 59th nationally — a gap of 36 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ranshaw ranks 12,902 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,500 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 93 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Ranshaw and the insurance market
Ranshaw's elevated rating (59th 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
Because 97.5% of Ranshaw'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
Ranshaw's 59th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Ranshaw, see the exposure-zones guide.