Laporte, PA
Laporte wildfire risk explained
Laporte's 332 buildings earn a 28th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Laporte at the 27th percentile, close to its 28th-percentile risk score.
Laporte's building exposure, zone by zone
82.5% of Laporte's 332 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 274 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 17.2% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0.3% are Minimal.
Where Laporte ranks
Laporte's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (34th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (28th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Laporte ranks 22,731 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,773 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,310 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Laporte
Laporte's moderate wildfire rating (28th 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 Laporte
Laporte's 82.5% 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.
Where Laporte's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Laporte's 22,731-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Laporte's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.