Spinnerstown, PA
How exposed is Spinnerstown to wildfire?
USFS scores Spinnerstown at the 16th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 705 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Spinnerstown at the 13th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Spinnerstown's buildings actually sit
Of Spinnerstown's 705 counted buildings, 67.1% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Spinnerstown ranks
There's little gap between Spinnerstown's 16th national percentile and its 15th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Spinnerstown ranks 26,646 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,606 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,688 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Spinnerstown
Spinnerstown's low wildfire rating (16th 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
Because Direct exposure dominates in Spinnerstown (67.1%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 705 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Spinnerstown. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Spinnerstown, see the exposure-zones guide.