Halifax, PA
Halifax wildfire risk explained
Halifax sits at the 34th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 323 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Halifax at the 33rd national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Halifax's buildings actually sit
88.5% of Halifax's 323 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 11.2% Direct and 0.3% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where Halifax ranks
Halifax scores 34th nationally and 47th within Pennsylvania — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Halifax ranks 20,844 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,021 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,057 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 34th national percentile, Halifax rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 88.5% of Halifax'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.
More on how this number was built
Halifax's 34th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Halifax, see the exposure-zones guide.