Littlestown, PA
How exposed is Littlestown to wildfire?
USFS scores Littlestown at the 5th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 1,799 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Littlestown at the 5th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 14.2% of Littlestown's 1,799 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0.5% carry Indirect; the remaining 85.3% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Littlestown compares
There's little gap between Littlestown's 5th national percentile and its 3rd percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Littlestown ranks 29,832 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,064 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,941 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Littlestown and the insurance market
Littlestown's low rating (5th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 85.3% of Littlestown 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
Littlestown's 5th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Littlestown, see the exposure-zones guide.