Whitaker, PA
Whitaker wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Whitaker lands at the 22nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 666 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Whitaker at the 23rd percentile, close to its 22nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Whitaker rates 98.1% Minimal exposure against just 2% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 666 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Whitaker against the rest of the country
Whitaker's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (24th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (22nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Whitaker ranks 24,754 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,005 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,523 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Whitaker and the insurance market
Whitaker's moderate rating (22nd 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 Whitaker
Whitaker's 98.1% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Whitaker's 24,754-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Whitaker, see the exposure-zones guide.