Plymptonville, PA
How exposed is Plymptonville to wildfire?
USFS scores Plymptonville at the 48th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 642 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Plymptonville at the 48th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Plymptonville's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 67.8% of Plymptonville's 642 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 32.2% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Plymptonville ranks
Compare Plymptonville's two percentiles: 77th within Pennsylvania, only 48th nationally — a gap of 30 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Plymptonville ranks 16,463 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,302 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 452 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
Plymptonville's elevated rating (48th 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
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Plymptonville (67.8% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Plymptonville's 16,463-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Plymptonville, see the exposure-zones guide.