Morton, PA
Morton wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Morton at the 18th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 749 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Morton at the 19th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 4.1% of Morton's 749 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 95.9% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Morton ranks
Morton's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (19th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (18th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Morton ranks 25,791 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,134 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,607 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Morton
At the 18th national percentile, Morton rates low 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
Even with 95.9% of Morton 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 749 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Morton. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Morton, see the exposure-zones guide.