Elmora, PA
Elmora wildfire risk explained
Elmora's 265 buildings earn a 39th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Elmora at the 39th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Elmora's buildings actually sit
Of Elmora's 265 counted buildings, 82.6% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Elmora compares
Within Pennsylvania, Elmora ranks higher (61st percentile) than it does nationally (39th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Elmora ranks 19,205 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,679 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 785 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Elmora and the insurance market
Elmora's moderate wildfire rating (39th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Elmora
Elmora's 82.6% 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 Elmora's 19,205-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Elmora, see the exposure-zones guide.