Middletown (Dauphin), PA
How exposed is Middletown (Dauphin) to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Middletown (Dauphin) at the 12th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 3,085 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 Middletown (Dauphin) at the 11th percentile, close to its 12th-percentile risk score.
Middletown (Dauphin)'s building exposure, zone by zone
Middletown (Dauphin) rates 96.3% Minimal exposure against just 3.7% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 3,085 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Middletown (Dauphin) compares
There's little gap between Middletown (Dauphin)'s 12th national percentile and its 10th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Middletown (Dauphin) ranks 27,780 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,307 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,784 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
Middletown (Dauphin)'s low rating (12th 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
Middletown (Dauphin)'s 96.3% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Middletown (Dauphin)'s 27,780-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Middletown (Dauphin), see the exposure-zones guide.