WildfireRiskFinder

Twin Rocks, PA

Twin Rocks, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers

Elevated
44thpercentile nationally

USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Twin Rocks at the 44th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 265 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 Twin Rocks at the 43rd percentile, close to its 44th-percentile risk score.

Twin Rocks's building exposure, zone by zone

265Total buildings
98.9%Direct exposure
1.1%Indirect exposure
0%Minimal exposure

Direct exposure dominates in Twin Rocks: 98.9% of its 265 buildings, versus 1.1% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.

How Twin Rocks compares

Compare Twin Rocks's two percentiles: 71st within Pennsylvania, only 44th nationally — a gap of 27 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Twin Rocks ranks 17,727 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,681 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 591 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.

Shopping for coverage in Twin Rocks

At the 44th national percentile, Twin Rocks rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.

Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it

With 98.9% of Twin Rocks 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.

More on how this number was built

Twin Rocks's 44th-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 Twin Rocks, see the exposure-zones guide.