Linntown, PA
Linntown, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Linntown's 846 buildings earn a 11th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Linntown's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 13th percentile nationally.
Where Linntown's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 64% of Linntown's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 16.3% Direct and 19.7% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Linntown compares
Linntown's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (10th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (11th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Linntown ranks 27,938 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,200 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,797 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Linntown and the insurance market
Linntown's low wildfire rating (11th 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 Linntown
Even with 64% of Linntown outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Linntown's 27,938-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Linntown, see the exposure-zones guide.