Shiremanstown, PA
Shiremanstown, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Shiremanstown sits at the 12th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 650 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Shiremanstown's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 13th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 4.2% of Shiremanstown's 650 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 95.9% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Shiremanstown against the rest of the country
Shiremanstown's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (10th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (12th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Shiremanstown ranks 27,906 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,204 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,794 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shiremanstown and the insurance market
At the 12th national percentile, Shiremanstown rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Shiremanstown's 95.9% 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 Shiremanstown's 27,906-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Shiremanstown, see the exposure-zones guide.