Jerome, PA
How exposed is Jerome to wildfire?
Jerome's 571 buildings earn a 43rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Jerome at the 44th percentile, close to its 43rd-percentile risk score.
Jerome's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Jerome: 51.3% of its 571 buildings, versus 48.7% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Jerome against the rest of the country
Within Pennsylvania, Jerome ranks higher (69th percentile) than it does nationally (43rd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Jerome ranks 18,039 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,240 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 623 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Jerome
Jerome's elevated wildfire rating (43rd percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
Jerome's 51.3% 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 Jerome's 18,039-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Jerome, see the exposure-zones guide.