West Falls, PA
West Falls wildfire risk explained
West Falls's 305 buildings earn a 57th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, West Falls's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 57th percentile nationally.
West Falls's building exposure, zone by zone
Of West Falls's 305 counted buildings, 87.9% carry Direct exposure and only 2% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
West Falls against the rest of the country
Compare West Falls's two percentiles: 94th within Pennsylvania, only 57th nationally — a gap of 36 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, West Falls ranks 13,531 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,511 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 130 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
West Falls and the insurance market
West Falls's elevated rating (57th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 87.9% of West Falls in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
West Falls's 57th-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 West Falls, see the exposure-zones guide.