Lawnton, PA
Lawnton, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Lawnton lands at the 21st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 1,699 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Lawnton at the 23rd percentile, close to its 21st-percentile risk score.
Lawnton's building exposure, zone by zone
91% of Lawnton's 1,699 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 9% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Where Lawnton ranks
Lawnton's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (23rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (21st) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lawnton ranks 24,780 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,424 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,525 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Lawnton and the insurance market
Lawnton's moderate wildfire rating (21st 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 91% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Lawnton gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,699 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Lawnton. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Lawnton, see the exposure-zones guide.