South Renovo, PA
South Renovo wildfire risk explained
South Renovo sits at the 60th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 199 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts South Renovo at the 58th percentile, close to its 60th-percentile risk score.
South Renovo's building exposure, zone by zone
199 buildings are counted in South Renovo, and 83.9% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 16.1% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
South Renovo against the rest of the country
South Renovo's 97th-percentile standing inside Pennsylvania outpaces its 60th 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, South Renovo ranks 12,555 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,901 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 71 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
South Renovo and the insurance market
South Renovo's 60th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
South Renovo's 83.9% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where South Renovo's figures come from
South Renovo's 60th-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 South Renovo's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.