Elim, PA
How exposed is Elim to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Elim at the 38th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,663 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Elim at the 36th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
58.8% of Elim's 1,663 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 41.2% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Elim compares
Elim's 56th-percentile standing inside Pennsylvania outpaces its 38th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Elim ranks 19,707 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,550 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 880 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Elim and the insurance market
Elim's moderate rating (38th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Elim
Because 58.8% of Elim's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,663 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Elim. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Elim, see the exposure-zones guide.