Snydertown (Centre), PA
Snydertown (Centre), PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Snydertown (Centre)'s 357 buildings earn a 52nd-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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Snydertown (Centre) at the 51st national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Snydertown (Centre)'s buildings actually sit
Of Snydertown (Centre)'s 357 counted buildings, 86.8% 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.
How Snydertown (Centre) compares
Snydertown (Centre)'s 85th-percentile standing inside Pennsylvania outpaces its 52nd national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Snydertown (Centre) ranks 15,266 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,143 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 300 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Snydertown (Centre) and the insurance market
Snydertown (Centre)'s elevated wildfire rating (52nd percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
Snydertown (Centre)'s 86.8% 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.
Where Snydertown (Centre)'s figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 357 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Snydertown (Centre). The exposure-zones guide covers what Snydertown (Centre)'s dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.