Washingtonville, PA
How exposed is Washingtonville to wildfire?
Washingtonville sits at the 11th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 105 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Washingtonville at the 12th percentile, close to its 11th-percentile risk score.
Washingtonville's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 85.7% of Washingtonville's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 14.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Washingtonville against the rest of the country
Washingtonville scores 11th nationally and 10th within Pennsylvania — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Washingtonville ranks 27,939 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,819 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,798 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Washingtonville and the insurance market
Washingtonville's low wildfire rating (11th 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.
Hardening a home in Washingtonville
Washingtonville's 85.7% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Washingtonville's figures come from
Washingtonville's 11th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Washingtonville's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.