Myerstown, PA
How exposed is Myerstown to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Myerstown lands at the 5th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 1,222 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Myerstown at the 5th percentile, close to its 5th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 97.6% of Myerstown's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 2.4% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Myerstown compares
Myerstown scores 5th 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, Myerstown ranks 29,960 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,527 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,945 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
Myerstown's low rating (5th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Myerstown's 97.6% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Myerstown's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,222 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Myerstown. The exposure-zones guide covers what Myerstown's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.