Landisburg, PA
How exposed is Landisburg to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Landisburg at the 42nd national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 110 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Landisburg at the 41st percentile, close to its 42nd-percentile risk score.
Landisburg's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Landisburg's buildings (90%) 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.
Where Landisburg ranks
Compare Landisburg's two percentiles: 66th within Pennsylvania, only 42nd nationally — a gap of 24 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Landisburg ranks 18,389 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,636 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 682 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Landisburg and the insurance market
Landisburg's elevated wildfire rating (42nd 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.
Hardening a home in Landisburg
Landisburg's 90% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Landisburg's 18,389-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Landisburg, see the exposure-zones guide.