Paxtang, PA
Paxtang, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Paxtang lands at the 10th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 761 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 Paxtang at the 11th percentile, close to its 10th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 97% of Paxtang's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 3% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Paxtang compares
There's little gap between Paxtang's 10th national percentile and its 8th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Paxtang ranks 28,251 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,009 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,824 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Paxtang and the insurance market
Paxtang's low rating (10th 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
Even with 97% of Paxtang 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 761 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Paxtang. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Paxtang, see the exposure-zones guide.