Emigsville, PA
How exposed is Emigsville to wildfire?
Emigsville's 1,326 buildings earn a 6th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Emigsville at the 7th percentile, close to its 6th-percentile risk score.
Emigsville's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 18% of Emigsville's 1,326 buildings carry Direct exposure and 25.8% carry Indirect; the remaining 56.3% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Emigsville against the rest of the country
Emigsville's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (4th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (6th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Emigsville ranks 29,518 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,951 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,921 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Emigsville and the insurance market
Emigsville's low rating (6th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Emigsville's 56.3% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,326 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Emigsville. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Emigsville, see the exposure-zones guide.