Wayne Heights, PA
Wayne Heights, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Wayne Heights at the 47th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 1,107 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 Wayne Heights at the 45th percentile, close to its 47th-percentile risk score.
Wayne Heights's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 25.9% of Wayne Heights's 1,107 buildings carry Direct exposure and 3.5% carry Indirect; the remaining 70.6% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Wayne Heights ranks
Within Pennsylvania, Wayne Heights ranks higher (75th percentile) than it does nationally (47th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wayne Heights ranks 16,875 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,239 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 502 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Wayne Heights
At the 47th national percentile, Wayne Heights rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Wayne Heights
Even with 70.6% of Wayne Heights outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where Wayne Heights's figures come from
Wayne Heights's 47th-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 Wayne Heights's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.