Lower Allen, PA
How exposed is Lower Allen to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Lower Allen at the 19th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 2,617 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 Lower Allen at the 19th percentile, close to its 19th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 7.3% of Lower Allen's 2,617 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 92.7% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Lower Allen ranks
Lower Allen's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (20th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (19th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lower Allen ranks 25,605 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,071 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,591 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Lower Allen
Lower Allen's low rating (19th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Lower Allen
With 92.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Lower Allen gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Lower Allen's 19th-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 Lower Allen, see the exposure-zones guide.