Spring Mills, PA
Spring Mills, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Spring Mills at the 46th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 297 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Spring Mills at the 46th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 59.9% of Spring Mills's 297 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 40.1% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Spring Mills compares
Spring Mills's 74th-percentile standing inside Pennsylvania outpaces its 46th 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, Spring Mills ranks 17,032 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,716 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 520 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Spring Mills and the insurance market
At the 46th national percentile, Spring Mills rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 59.9% of Spring Mills'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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Spring Mills's 17,032-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Spring Mills, see the exposure-zones guide.