Plant disease occurrence varies depending upon weather conditions, and weather-based disease forecasts are often useful in decision-making for fungicide sprays. The decision-making process involves determining a threshold level of disease risk above which disease control action needs to be taken. In order to use disease forecast models practically for plant disease management, it is important to know the probability that disease forecast based on the risk threshold would be correct. In this study, we developed and evaluated a model that can be used to predict possible occurrence of pear scab epidemic prior to June 1 in a season. Pear scab disease incidence and weather data from 21 and 18 locations in 2014 and 2015, respectively, in Korea were used to develop the model, which consisted of a primary infection period after overwintering, an infection risk factor and an infection risk threshold. This model was evaluated using disease incidence and weather data from 76, 69 and 57 locations in 2016 to 2018 in Korea. For developing the model, the Mills model which was originally developed to determine infection periods of apple scab was used to calculate daily infection risk (〖IR〗_d). With the epidemiological characteristics of pear scab disease and historical disease data, we assumed that the primary infection period after overwintering were April 1st to May 16th, and pear scab outbreak prior to June 1st would cause significant damage to pear production of an orchard. The number of days with 〖IR〗_d>0 during the period from April 1st to May 16th was applied to determine the probability of pear scab development with regard to the levels of infection risk threshold. The optimum infection risk threshold was determined to be 18 days by the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis. Using the optimum infection risk threshold, accuracy of the model prediction on pear scab development was evaluated by the two-way contingency table analysis. The results indicated that the true positive warning rate (TPWR) and false negative warning rate (FPWR) of the disease forecast was 94 % and 17 % when the infection risk threshold was 18 days. In the validation study, the model showed that TPWR and FPWR were 70 % and 73 %, respectively.