Spartansburg, PA
How exposed is Spartansburg to wildfire?
Spartansburg's 285 buildings earn a 42nd-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 Spartansburg at the 43rd percentile, close to its 42nd-percentile risk score.
Where Spartansburg's buildings actually sit
285 buildings are counted in Spartansburg, and 61.4% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
How Spartansburg compares
Compare Spartansburg's two percentiles: 66th within Pennsylvania, only 42nd nationally — a gap of 24 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Spartansburg ranks 18,447 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,044 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 686 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Spartansburg and the insurance market
Spartansburg's elevated wildfire rating (42nd 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
With 61.4% of Spartansburg 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.
More on how this number was built
Spartansburg's 42nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Spartansburg, see the exposure-zones guide.