Saegertown, PA
Saegertown wildfire risk explained
Saegertown's 502 buildings earn a 34th-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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Saegertown at the 35th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Saegertown (68.7% of 502 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 31.3% sit in the Direct zone.
How Saegertown compares
Saegertown scores 34th nationally and 47th 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, Saegertown ranks 20,845 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,319 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,058 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Saegertown and the insurance market
Saegertown's moderate rating (34th 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 68.7% of Saegertown'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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 502 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Saegertown. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Saegertown, see the exposure-zones guide.