Walnuttown, PA
How exposed is Walnuttown to wildfire?
Walnuttown's 329 buildings earn a 22nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Walnuttown at the 21st national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Walnuttown's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 53.5% of Walnuttown's 329 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 46.5% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Walnuttown compares
Walnuttown's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (25th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (22nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Walnuttown ranks 24,469 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,860 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,495 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Walnuttown
At the 22nd national percentile, Walnuttown rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Walnuttown
Because 53.5% of Walnuttown'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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Walnuttown's 24,469-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Walnuttown, see the exposure-zones guide.