Swedesburg, PA
Swedesburg, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Swedesburg's 280 buildings earn a 7th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Swedesburg at the 8th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 0.4% of Swedesburg's 280 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 99.6% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Swedesburg against the rest of the country
Swedesburg scores 7th nationally and 4th within Pennsylvania — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Swedesburg ranks 29,265 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,204 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,906 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Swedesburg and the insurance market
At the 7th national percentile, Swedesburg rates low 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
Even with 99.6% of Swedesburg 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.
More on how this number was built
Swedesburg's 7th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Swedesburg, see the exposure-zones guide.