Elizabethville, PA
Elizabethville wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Elizabethville lands at the 40th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 635 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Elizabethville at the 37th national percentile — 3 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Elizabethville's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Elizabethville's buildings (84.9%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Elizabethville compares
Compare Elizabethville's two percentiles: 62nd within Pennsylvania, only 40th nationally — a gap of 22 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Elizabethville ranks 18,980 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,408 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 754 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Elizabethville and the insurance market
Elizabethville's moderate rating (40th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 84.9% of Elizabethville'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.
Where Elizabethville's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Elizabethville's 18,980-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Elizabethville's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.