Jersey Shore, PA
How exposed is Jersey Shore to wildfire?
Jersey Shore's 1,850 buildings earn a 37th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Jersey Shore at the 36th percentile, close to its 37th-percentile risk score.
Where Jersey Shore's buildings actually sit
94.1% of Jersey Shore's 1,850 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 6% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Jersey Shore compares
Within Pennsylvania, Jersey Shore ranks higher (55th percentile) than it does nationally (37th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Jersey Shore ranks 19,896 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,911 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 898 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Jersey Shore and the insurance market
At the 37th national percentile, Jersey Shore 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
Jersey Shore's 94.1% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Jersey Shore's 19,896-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Jersey Shore, see the exposure-zones guide.