Hallam, PA
Hallam, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Hallam at the 15th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 748 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Hallam at the 13th percentile, close to its 15th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Hallam's buildings (76.1%) 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.
Hallam against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Hallam's 15th national percentile and its 15th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hallam ranks 26,736 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,145 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,696 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Hallam
At the 15th national percentile, Hallam rates low 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 76.1% of Hallam'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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Hallam's 26,736-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Hallam, see the exposure-zones guide.