Whitehall, PA
How exposed is Whitehall to wildfire?
Whitehall's 5,007 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 Whitehall at the 22nd national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Whitehall rates 84.9% Minimal exposure against just 8.1% Direct and 6.9% Indirect — of 5,007 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 5,007 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Whitehall against the rest of the country
Whitehall scores 22nd nationally and 24th within Pennsylvania — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Whitehall ranks 24,755 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,428 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,524 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Whitehall
At the 22nd national percentile, Whitehall rates moderate 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
With 84.9% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Whitehall 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 Whitehall's 24,755-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Whitehall, see the exposure-zones guide.