Walnutport, PA
Walnutport, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Walnutport at the 42nd national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 944 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 Walnutport at the 41st percentile, close to its 42nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
944 buildings are counted in Walnutport, and 94.2% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 5.8% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Walnutport against the rest of the country
Walnutport's 66th-percentile standing inside Pennsylvania outpaces its 42nd national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Walnutport ranks 18,448 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,358 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 687 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
At the 42nd national percentile, Walnutport rates elevated 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
Because 94.2% of Walnutport's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 944 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Walnutport. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Walnutport, see the exposure-zones guide.