Thornburg, PA
How exposed is Thornburg to wildfire?
Thornburg's 223 buildings earn a 27th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Thornburg at the 28th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Thornburg's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 55.6% of Thornburg's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 44.4% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Thornburg compares
There's little gap between Thornburg's 27th national percentile and its 33rd percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Thornburg ranks 22,990 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,033 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,346 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Thornburg's moderate rating (27th 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
Thornburg's 55.6% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 223 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Thornburg. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Thornburg, see the exposure-zones guide.