Tidioute, PA
Tidioute, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Tidioute at the 22nd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 449 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 Tidioute at the 21st percentile, close to its 22nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
60.6% of Tidioute's 449 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 272 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 39.4% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Tidioute against the rest of the country
Tidioute scores 22nd nationally and 24th 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, Tidioute ranks 24,753 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,305 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,522 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Tidioute and the insurance market
Tidioute's moderate wildfire rating (22nd 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Tidioute's 60.6% 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
Tidioute's 22nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Tidioute, see the exposure-zones guide.