WildfireRiskFinder

Dunlo, PA

Dunlo, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers

Elevated
50thpercentile nationally

Dunlo's 242 buildings earn a 50th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)

Separately from the risk score above, Dunlo's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 50th percentile nationally.

Dunlo's building exposure, zone by zone

242Total buildings
52.5%Direct exposure
47.5%Indirect exposure
0%Minimal exposure

242 buildings are counted in Dunlo, and 52.5% 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.

How Dunlo compares

Within Pennsylvania, Dunlo ranks higher (82nd percentile) than it does nationally (50th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dunlo ranks 15,707 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,403 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 357 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.

Dunlo and the insurance market

At the 50th national percentile, Dunlo rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.

Hardening a home in Dunlo

Dunlo's 52.5% 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.

More on how this number was built

Every one of the two percentiles behind Dunlo's 15,707-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Dunlo, see the exposure-zones guide.