Unionville (Beaver), PA
How exposed is Unionville (Beaver) to wildfire?
USFS scores Unionville (Beaver) at the 35th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 188 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Unionville (Beaver) at the 37th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Unionville (Beaver)'s buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Unionville (Beaver): 69.7% of its 188 buildings, versus 30.3% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Unionville (Beaver) ranks
Compare Unionville (Beaver)'s two percentiles: 51st within Pennsylvania, only 35th nationally — a gap of 15 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Unionville (Beaver) ranks 20,402 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,331 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 983 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
Unionville (Beaver)'s moderate wildfire rating (35th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 69.7% of Unionville (Beaver) 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Unionville (Beaver)'s 20,402-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Unionville (Beaver), see the exposure-zones guide.