Macungie, PA
Macungie wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Macungie at the 17th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 904 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Macungie at the 16th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Macungie (82.6% of 904 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 16% sit in the Direct zone.
Where Macungie ranks
There's little gap between Macungie's 17th national percentile and its 18th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Macungie ranks 26,044 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,691 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,625 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Macungie
Macungie's low rating (17th 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 82.6% of Macungie's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Macungie's 26,044-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Macungie, see the exposure-zones guide.