Hartleton, PA
How exposed is Hartleton to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Hartleton lands at the 27th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 200 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Hartleton at the 27th percentile, close to its 27th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 50% of Hartleton's 200 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 28.5% Direct and 21.5% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Hartleton ranks
There's little gap between Hartleton's 27th national percentile and its 32nd percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hartleton ranks 23,017 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,860 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,348 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Hartleton
Hartleton's moderate rating (27th 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
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Hartleton (50% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Hartleton's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Hartleton's 23,017-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Hartleton's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.