Springmont, PA
Springmont, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Springmont at the 14th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 345 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Springmont's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 15th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 90.4% of Springmont's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 9.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Springmont against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Springmont's 14th national percentile and its 13th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Springmont ranks 27,148 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,459 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,733 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Springmont
Springmont's low rating (14th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 90.4% of Springmont outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where Springmont's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Springmont's 27,148-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Springmont's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.