Weatherly, PA
Weatherly wildfire risk explained
Weatherly's 1,179 buildings earn a 65th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Weatherly at the 64th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Weatherly's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Weatherly (66.7% of 1,179 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 33.3% sit in the Direct zone.
How Weatherly compares
Weatherly's 99th-percentile standing inside Pennsylvania outpaces its 65th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Weatherly ranks 10,977 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,778 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 21 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Weatherly and the insurance market
Weatherly's high rating (65th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Weatherly (66.7% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,179 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Weatherly. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Weatherly, see the exposure-zones guide.