Thompsonville, PA
How exposed is Thompsonville to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Thompsonville at the 24th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,462 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Thompsonville at the 26th percentile, close to its 24th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Thompsonville: 51% of its 1,462 buildings, versus 45.4% Indirect and 3.7% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Thompsonville against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Thompsonville's 24th national percentile and its 27th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Thompsonville ranks 24,062 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,342 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,454 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Thompsonville
Thompsonville's moderate rating (24th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Thompsonville
With 51% of Thompsonville in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
Where Thompsonville's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,462 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Thompsonville. The exposure-zones guide covers what Thompsonville's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.