Orrstown, PA
How exposed is Orrstown to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Orrstown lands at the 24th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 111 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 Orrstown at the 26th percentile, close to its 24th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Orrstown rates 69.4% Minimal exposure against just 30.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 111 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Orrstown ranks
Orrstown scores 24th nationally and 28th 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, Orrstown ranks 23,899 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,607 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,432 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Orrstown
Orrstown's moderate wildfire rating (24th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 69.4% of Orrstown 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Orrstown's 23,899-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Orrstown, see the exposure-zones guide.