Turbotville, PA
How exposed is Turbotville to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Turbotville at the 16th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 381 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Turbotville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 18th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 12.6% of Turbotville's 381 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 87.4% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Turbotville compares
Turbotville's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (17th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (16th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Turbotville ranks 26,391 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,633 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,663 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Turbotville and the insurance market
Turbotville's low wildfire rating (16th 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 Turbotville
Turbotville's 87.4% 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.
Where Turbotville's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 381 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Turbotville. The exposure-zones guide covers what Turbotville's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.