Tharptown (Uniontown), PA
How exposed is Tharptown (Uniontown) to wildfire?
USFS scores Tharptown (Uniontown) at the 54th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 239 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Tharptown (Uniontown)'s burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 52nd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Tharptown (Uniontown)'s buildings (89.5%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Tharptown (Uniontown) compares
Tharptown (Uniontown)'s 90th-percentile standing inside Pennsylvania outpaces its 54th 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, Tharptown (Uniontown) ranks 14,478 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,508 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 208 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Tharptown (Uniontown)
Tharptown (Uniontown)'s elevated wildfire rating (54th 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.
Hardening a home in Tharptown (Uniontown)
Tharptown (Uniontown)'s 89.5% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Tharptown (Uniontown)'s 14,478-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Tharptown (Uniontown), see the exposure-zones guide.