Maytown, PA
Maytown wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Maytown lands at the 3rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 1,260 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Maytown's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 3rd percentile nationally.
Maytown's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 31% of Maytown's 1,260 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 69% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Maytown compares
There's little gap between Maytown's 3rd national percentile and its 1st percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Maytown ranks 30,621 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,301 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,976 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Maytown's low rating (3rd 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
Even with 69% of Maytown 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,260 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Maytown. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Maytown, see the exposure-zones guide.