Lewistown, PA
How exposed is Lewistown to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Lewistown at the 38th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 3,243 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 Lewistown at the 36th percentile, close to its 38th-percentile risk score.
Where Lewistown's buildings actually sit
3,243 buildings are counted in Lewistown, and 95.9% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 4.1% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Where Lewistown ranks
Within Pennsylvania, Lewistown ranks higher (57th percentile) than it does nationally (38th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lewistown ranks 19,521 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,110 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 843 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Lewistown and the insurance market
At the 38th national percentile, Lewistown 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
Because 95.9% of Lewistown's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Lewistown's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lewistown's 19,521-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Lewistown's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.