Georgetown (Lancaster), PA
Georgetown (Lancaster) wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Georgetown (Lancaster) at the 7th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 727 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Georgetown (Lancaster)'s burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 6th percentile nationally.
Where Georgetown (Lancaster)'s buildings actually sit
Of Georgetown (Lancaster)'s 727 counted buildings, 56.7% carry Direct exposure and only 37.8% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Georgetown (Lancaster) compares
There's little gap between Georgetown (Lancaster)'s 7th national percentile and its 4th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Georgetown (Lancaster) ranks 29,358 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,374 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,910 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Georgetown (Lancaster)
Georgetown (Lancaster)'s low rating (7th 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 Georgetown (Lancaster)
Georgetown (Lancaster)'s 56.7% 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 Georgetown (Lancaster)'s 29,358-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Georgetown (Lancaster), see the exposure-zones guide.