Mount Wolf, PA
How exposed is Mount Wolf to wildfire?
Mount Wolf's 605 buildings earn a 9th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Mount Wolf's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 8th percentile nationally.
Mount Wolf's building exposure, zone by zone
83.8% of Mount Wolf's 605 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 16.2% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where Mount Wolf ranks
There's little gap between Mount Wolf's 9th national percentile and its 6th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mount Wolf ranks 28,821 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,773 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,868 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mount Wolf
At the 9th national percentile, Mount Wolf 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
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Mount Wolf (83.8% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 605 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Mount Wolf. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Mount Wolf, see the exposure-zones guide.