Thompson, PA
How exposed is Thompson to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Thompson lands at the 30th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 204 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Thompson's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 29th percentile nationally.
Thompson's building exposure, zone by zone
204 buildings are counted in Thompson, and 90.2% 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 Thompson compares
There's little gap between Thompson's 30th national percentile and its 38th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Thompson ranks 22,077 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,707 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,232 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Thompson and the insurance market
Thompson's moderate rating (30th 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
Thompson's 90.2% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Thompson's 22,077-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Thompson, see the exposure-zones guide.