Lenkerville, PA
How exposed is Lenkerville to wildfire?
USFS scores Lenkerville at the 46th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 238 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Lenkerville at the 44th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Lenkerville's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Lenkerville's buildings (74.4%) 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.
How Lenkerville compares
Lenkerville's 74th-percentile standing inside Pennsylvania outpaces its 46th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lenkerville ranks 17,094 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,541 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 526 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Lenkerville
Lenkerville's elevated wildfire rating (46th 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 ember exposure the dominant pattern in Lenkerville (74.4% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Lenkerville's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 238 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Lenkerville. The exposure-zones guide covers what Lenkerville's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.