Salunga, PA
Salunga wildfire risk explained
Salunga's 1,302 buildings earn a 2nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Salunga at the 3rd national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 75.3% of Salunga's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 24.7% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Salunga compares
There's little gap between Salunga's 2nd national percentile and its 0th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Salunga ranks 30,842 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,071 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,987 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Salunga and the insurance market
Salunga's low rating (2nd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Salunga's 75.3% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Salunga's 30,842-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Salunga, see the exposure-zones guide.