Weigelstown, PA
Weigelstown, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Weigelstown's 5,274 buildings earn a 5th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Weigelstown at the 5th percentile, close to its 5th-percentile risk score.
Where Weigelstown's buildings actually sit
Most of Weigelstown's buildings (66.4% of 5,274) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure. At 5,274 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Weigelstown ranks
Weigelstown's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (2nd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (5th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Weigelstown ranks 29,991 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,273 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,946 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Weigelstown
At the 5th national percentile, Weigelstown rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 66.4% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Weigelstown gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Weigelstown's 29,991-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Weigelstown, see the exposure-zones guide.