Stockertown, PA
Stockertown wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Stockertown at the 19th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 537 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Stockertown's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 19th percentile nationally.
Stockertown's building exposure, zone by zone
Stockertown rates 70% Minimal exposure against just 30% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 537 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Stockertown against the rest of the country
Stockertown scores 19th nationally and 20th within Pennsylvania — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Stockertown ranks 25,634 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,770 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,595 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Stockertown and the insurance market
At the 19th national percentile, Stockertown 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
Stockertown's 70% 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
Stockertown's 19th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Stockertown, see the exposure-zones guide.