Lampeter, PA
How exposed is Lampeter to wildfire?
Lampeter sits at the 3rd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 730 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Lampeter at the 3rd percentile, close to its 3rd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 69.7% of Lampeter's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 30.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Lampeter compares
There's little gap between Lampeter's 3rd national percentile and its 1st percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lampeter ranks 30,620 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,339 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,975 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Lampeter and the insurance market
Lampeter's low rating (3rd 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
Even with 69.7% of Lampeter outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where Lampeter's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lampeter's 30,620-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Lampeter's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.