Little Meadows, PA
How exposed is Little Meadows to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Little Meadows at the 20th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 238 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 Little Meadows at the 20th percentile, close to its 20th-percentile risk score.
Little Meadows's building exposure, zone by zone
238 buildings are counted in Little Meadows, and 100% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Little Meadows against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Little Meadows's 20th national percentile and its 21st percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Little Meadows ranks 25,383 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,542 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,573 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Little Meadows and the insurance market
Little Meadows's low rating (20th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Little Meadows (100%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 238 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Little Meadows. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Little Meadows, see the exposure-zones guide.