Midway (Adams), PA
Midway (Adams) wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Midway (Adams) at the 4th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 520 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Midway (Adams) at the 4th percentile, close to its 4th-percentile risk score.
Where Midway (Adams)'s buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 95.8% of Midway (Adams)'s buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 4.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Midway (Adams) compares
Midway (Adams) scores 4th nationally and 2nd within Pennsylvania — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Midway (Adams) ranks 30,307 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,026 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,963 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Midway (Adams)
Midway (Adams)'s low wildfire rating (4th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Midway (Adams)
With 95.8% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Midway (Adams) gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Midway (Adams)'s figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Midway (Adams)'s 30,307-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Midway (Adams)'s dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.