Kempton, PA
Kempton, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Kempton at the 41st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 172 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Kempton's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 40th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Kempton's 172 counted buildings, 53.5% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Kempton ranks
Compare Kempton's two percentiles: 65th within Pennsylvania, only 41st nationally — a gap of 24 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kempton ranks 18,605 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,962 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 702 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Kempton
At the 41st national percentile, Kempton rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Kempton's 53.5% 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
Kempton's 41st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Kempton, see the exposure-zones guide.