Wyano, PA
Wyano wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Wyano at the 33rd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 326 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Wyano at the 34th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Wyano's buildings actually sit
326 buildings are counted in Wyano, and 61.7% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Wyano against the rest of the country
Wyano's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (45th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (33rd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wyano ranks 21,161 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,934 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,105 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Wyano and the insurance market
Wyano's moderate wildfire rating (33rd percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Wyano's 61.7% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Wyano's figures come from
Wyano's 33rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Wyano's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.