Lime Ridge, PA
Lime Ridge wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Lime Ridge lands at the 31st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 498 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Lime Ridge at the 32nd national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Lime Ridge's buildings actually sit
Most of Lime Ridge's buildings (65.5%) 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 Lime Ridge compares
There's little gap between Lime Ridge's 31st national percentile and its 39th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lime Ridge ranks 21,882 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,395 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,209 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Lime Ridge and the insurance market
At the 31st national percentile, Lime Ridge 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 65.5% of Lime Ridge'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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lime Ridge's 21,882-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Lime Ridge, see the exposure-zones guide.