Unionville (Centre), PA
Unionville (Centre) wildfire risk explained
Unionville (Centre) sits at the 62nd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 191 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Unionville (Centre) at the 60th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Unionville (Centre)'s building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 66% of Unionville (Centre)'s 191 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 34% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Unionville (Centre) against the rest of the country
Compare Unionville (Centre)'s two percentiles: 98th within Pennsylvania, only 62nd nationally — a gap of 36 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Unionville (Centre) ranks 11,955 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,222 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 49 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Unionville (Centre) and the insurance market
At the 62nd percentile nationally, Unionville (Centre) carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Hardening a home in Unionville (Centre)
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Unionville (Centre) (66% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Unionville (Centre)'s 11,955-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Unionville (Centre), see the exposure-zones guide.