Leola, PA
Leola, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Leola at the 2nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 3,104 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Leola at the 3rd percentile, close to its 2nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Leola's buildings (75.7% of 3,104) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Leola against the rest of the country
Leola's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (0th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (2nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Leola ranks 30,841 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,286 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,986 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Leola's low wildfire rating (2nd 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 Leola
With 75.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Leola 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Leola's 30,841-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Leola, see the exposure-zones guide.