WildfireRiskFinder

Wilburton Number One, PA

How exposed is Wilburton Number One to wildfire?

High
65thpercentile nationally

USFS scores Wilburton Number One at the 65th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 152 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)

Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Wilburton Number One at the 63rd national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.

Where Wilburton Number One's buildings actually sit

152Total buildings
71.7%Direct exposure
28.3%Indirect exposure
0%Minimal exposure

Direct exposure dominates in Wilburton Number One: 71.7% of its 152 buildings, versus 28.3% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.

Wilburton Number One against the rest of the country

Within Pennsylvania, Wilburton Number One ranks higher (99th percentile) than it does nationally (65th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wilburton Number One ranks 10,915 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,825 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 19 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.

Shopping for coverage in Wilburton Number One

Wilburton Number One'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.

Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it

Because Direct exposure dominates in Wilburton Number One (71.7%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.

More on how this number was built

Every one of the two percentiles behind Wilburton Number One's 10,915-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Wilburton Number One, see the exposure-zones guide.