Ligonier, PA
Ligonier wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Ligonier at the 43rd national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 902 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 Ligonier at the 44th percentile, close to its 43rd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 96.9% of Ligonier's 902 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 3.1% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Ligonier compares
Within Pennsylvania, Ligonier ranks higher (70th percentile) than it does nationally (43rd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ligonier ranks 17,852 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,708 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 605 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Ligonier
Ligonier's elevated wildfire rating (43rd 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 Ligonier
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Ligonier (96.9% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Ligonier's 17,852-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Ligonier, see the exposure-zones guide.