Mifflintown, PA
Mifflintown wildfire risk explained
Mifflintown sits at the 36th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 263 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Mifflintown's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 35th percentile nationally.
Mifflintown's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 98.1% of Mifflintown's 263 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 1.9% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Mifflintown compares
Mifflintown's 51st-percentile standing inside Pennsylvania outpaces its 36th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mifflintown ranks 20,306 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,752 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 972 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
At the 36th national percentile, Mifflintown rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 98.1% of Mifflintown'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 Mifflintown's 20,306-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Mifflintown, see the exposure-zones guide.