Linglestown, PA
How exposed is Linglestown to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Linglestown at the 44th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 3,363 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 Linglestown at the 43rd percentile, close to its 44th-percentile risk score.
Linglestown's building exposure, zone by zone
59.7% of Linglestown's 3,363 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 31.7% Direct and 8.7% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where Linglestown ranks
Within Pennsylvania, Linglestown ranks higher (70th percentile) than it does nationally (44th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Linglestown ranks 17,753 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,967 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 593 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
Linglestown's elevated wildfire rating (44th 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
Linglestown's 59.7% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Linglestown's 17,753-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Linglestown, see the exposure-zones guide.