Kylertown, PA
Kylertown, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Kylertown at the 52nd national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 253 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Kylertown's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 52nd percentile nationally.
Kylertown's building exposure, zone by zone
62.5% of Kylertown's 253 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 158 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 37.6% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where Kylertown ranks
Kylertown's 86th-percentile standing inside Pennsylvania outpaces its 52nd national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kylertown ranks 15,168 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,056 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 281 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Kylertown and the insurance market
Kylertown's elevated wildfire rating (52nd 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Kylertown's 62.5% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Kylertown's 15,168-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Kylertown, see the exposure-zones guide.