West Mayfield, PA
West Mayfield, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts West Mayfield at the 33rd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 626 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, West Mayfield's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 33rd percentile nationally.
West Mayfield's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of West Mayfield's buildings (76.2%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Where West Mayfield ranks
There's little gap between West Mayfield's 33rd national percentile and its 44th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, West Mayfield ranks 21,225 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,494 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,119 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
West Mayfield and the insurance market
West Mayfield's moderate rating (33rd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in West Mayfield
Because 76.2% of West Mayfield's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind West Mayfield's 21,225-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond West Mayfield, see the exposure-zones guide.