Mount Gretna Heights, PA
Mount Gretna Heights wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Mount Gretna Heights at the 29th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 173 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Mount Gretna Heights at the 26th national percentile — 3 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Mount Gretna Heights's building exposure, zone by zone
100% of Mount Gretna Heights's 173 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 173 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where Mount Gretna Heights ranks
Mount Gretna Heights scores 29th nationally and 36th 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, Mount Gretna Heights ranks 22,416 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,915 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,279 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mount Gretna Heights
Mount Gretna Heights's moderate wildfire rating (29th 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 Mount Gretna Heights
With 100% of Mount Gretna Heights in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Mount Gretna Heights's 22,416-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Mount Gretna Heights, see the exposure-zones guide.