Selinsgrove, PA
How exposed is Selinsgrove to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Selinsgrove at the 21st national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,755 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Selinsgrove's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 21st percentile nationally.
Selinsgrove's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 68.8% of Selinsgrove's 1,755 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 6.6% Direct and 24.6% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Selinsgrove ranks
There's little gap between Selinsgrove's 21st national percentile and its 22nd percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Selinsgrove ranks 25,072 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,206 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,552 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
Selinsgrove's moderate wildfire rating (21st 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Selinsgrove's 68.8% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,755 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Selinsgrove. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Selinsgrove, see the exposure-zones guide.