Palmyra, PA
How exposed is Palmyra to wildfire?
Palmyra's 3,251 buildings earn a 17th-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, Palmyra's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 17th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 3.1% of Palmyra's 3,251 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 97% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Palmyra ranks
There's little gap between Palmyra's 17th national percentile and its 17th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Palmyra ranks 26,231 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,099 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,647 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Palmyra and the insurance market
Palmyra's low wildfire rating (17th 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 Palmyra
Even with 97% of Palmyra 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.
Where Palmyra's figures come from
Palmyra's 17th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Palmyra's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.