Strasburg, PA
How exposed is Strasburg to wildfire?
USFS scores Strasburg at the 4th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 1,276 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Strasburg at the 4th percentile, close to its 4th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Strasburg rates 60.5% Minimal exposure against just 24.8% Direct and 14.7% Indirect — of 1,276 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Strasburg ranks
Strasburg's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (1st percentile statewide) as it does nationally (4th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Strasburg ranks 30,338 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,219 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,965 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
Strasburg's low wildfire rating (4th 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
With 60.5% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Strasburg gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Strasburg's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Strasburg's 30,338-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Strasburg's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.