Washington Boro, PA
Washington Boro wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Washington Boro at the 5th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 431 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Washington Boro at the 4th percentile, close to its 5th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Washington Boro: 56.2% of its 431 buildings, versus 0% Indirect and 43.9% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Washington Boro ranks
There's little gap between Washington Boro's 5th national percentile and its 2nd percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Washington Boro ranks 30,117 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,633 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,952 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
Washington Boro's low rating (5th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Washington Boro's 56.2% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Washington Boro's 5th-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 Washington Boro, see the exposure-zones guide.