Leeper, PA
Leeper wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Leeper at the 40th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 155 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 Leeper at the 40th percentile, close to its 40th-percentile risk score.
Leeper's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Leeper's 155 counted buildings, 74.8% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Leeper compares
Compare Leeper's two percentiles: 62nd within Pennsylvania, only 40th nationally — a gap of 22 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Leeper ranks 18,983 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,680 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 757 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Leeper and the insurance market
At the 40th national percentile, Leeper rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Leeper's 74.8% 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 Leeper's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Leeper's 18,983-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Leeper's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.