Klingerstown, PA
Klingerstown wildfire risk explained
Klingerstown sits at the 38th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 110 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Klingerstown's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 37th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Klingerstown's buildings (68.2%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Klingerstown against the rest of the country
Within Pennsylvania, Klingerstown ranks higher (57th percentile) than it does nationally (38th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Klingerstown ranks 19,520 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,635 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 842 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Klingerstown and the insurance market
Klingerstown's moderate rating (38th 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
Because 68.2% of Klingerstown'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 110 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Klingerstown. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Klingerstown, see the exposure-zones guide.