Kapp Heights, PA
Kapp Heights wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Kapp Heights at the 26th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 452 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Kapp Heights's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 27th percentile nationally.
Kapp Heights's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 80.1% of Kapp Heights's 452 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 19.9% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Kapp Heights ranks
Kapp Heights scores 26th nationally and 30th 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, Kapp Heights ranks 23,397 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,240 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,389 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
Kapp Heights's moderate rating (26th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Kapp Heights
Because 80.1% of Kapp Heights'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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 452 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Kapp Heights. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Kapp Heights, see the exposure-zones guide.