Wattsburg, PA
How exposed is Wattsburg to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Wattsburg at the 40th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 218 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Wattsburg at the 41st national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Wattsburg's building exposure, zone by zone
218 buildings are counted in Wattsburg, and 52.8% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Wattsburg against the rest of the country
Compare Wattsburg's two percentiles: 61st within Pennsylvania, only 40th nationally — a gap of 22 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wattsburg ranks 19,045 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,219 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 767 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
Wattsburg's moderate wildfire rating (40th 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 Wattsburg
Wattsburg's 52.8% 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.
Where Wattsburg's figures come from
Wattsburg's 40th-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 Wattsburg's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.