Volant, PA
Volant, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Volant's 114 buildings earn a 33rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Volant at the 34th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Volant's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Volant's buildings (60.5%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Volant compares
Volant's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (46th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (33rd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Volant ranks 21,004 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,474 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,081 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Volant and the insurance market
Volant's moderate rating (33rd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Volant
Because 60.5% of Volant's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Volant's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 114 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Volant. The exposure-zones guide covers what Volant's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.