Ellport, PA
How exposed is Ellport to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Ellport lands at the 31st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 736 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Ellport at the 32nd percentile, close to its 31st-percentile risk score.
Ellport's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Ellport's buildings (94.4%) 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.
Ellport against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Ellport's 31st national percentile and its 41st percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ellport ranks 21,754 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,263 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,183 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Ellport
At the 31st national percentile, Ellport rates moderate 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 Ellport
Because 94.4% of Ellport'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 Ellport's figures come from
Ellport's 31st-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 Ellport's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.