Yellow Springs, PA
Yellow Springs, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Yellow Springs sits at the 56th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 146 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Yellow Springs's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 54th percentile nationally.
Yellow Springs's building exposure, zone by zone
81.5% of Yellow Springs's 146 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 119 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 18.5% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Yellow Springs against the rest of the country
Within Pennsylvania, Yellow Springs ranks higher (92nd percentile) than it does nationally (56th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Yellow Springs ranks 13,944 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,045 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 165 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Yellow Springs and the insurance market
Yellow Springs's elevated rating (56th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Yellow Springs's 81.5% 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 Yellow Springs's figures come from
Yellow Springs's 56th-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 Yellow Springs's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.