WildfireRiskFinder

Tylersville, PA

How exposed is Tylersville to wildfire?

High
65thpercentile nationally

USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Tylersville at the 65th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 216 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)

USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Tylersville at the 63rd percentile, close to its 65th-percentile risk score.

Tylersville's building exposure, zone by zone

216Total buildings
90.3%Direct exposure
9.7%Indirect exposure
0%Minimal exposure

Of Tylersville's 216 counted buildings, 90.3% 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.

How Tylersville compares

Within Pennsylvania, Tylersville ranks higher (99th percentile) than it does nationally (65th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Tylersville ranks 11,013 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,288 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 22 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.

Shopping for coverage in Tylersville

Tylersville's high rating (65th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.

What would actually reduce this score

With 90.3% of Tylersville in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.

More on how this number was built

The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 216 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Tylersville. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Tylersville, see the exposure-zones guide.