Port Royal, PA
Port Royal, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Port Royal at the 34th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 485 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Port Royal at the 32nd percentile, close to its 34th-percentile risk score.
Port Royal's building exposure, zone by zone
78.6% of Port Royal's 485 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 21.4% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Port Royal against the rest of the country
Port Royal's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (46th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (34th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Port Royal ranks 20,969 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,621 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,073 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Port Royal
Port Royal's moderate wildfire rating (34th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 78.6% of Port Royal's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Port Royal's figures come from
Port Royal's 34th-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 Port Royal's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.