Kulpmont, PA
Kulpmont, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Kulpmont at the 58th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 881 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Kulpmont at the 56th percentile, close to its 58th-percentile risk score.
Kulpmont's building exposure, zone by zone
881 buildings are counted in Kulpmont, and 90% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 10% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Kulpmont compares
Compare Kulpmont's two percentiles: 95th within Pennsylvania, only 58th nationally — a gap of 37 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kulpmont ranks 13,277 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,903 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 112 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Kulpmont and the insurance market
Kulpmont's elevated wildfire rating (58th 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
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Kulpmont (90% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Kulpmont's figures come from
Kulpmont's 58th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Kulpmont's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.