Wrightsville, PA
Wrightsville, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Wrightsville's 979 buildings earn a 11th-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 Wrightsville at the 9th percentile, close to its 11th-percentile risk score.
Where Wrightsville's buildings actually sit
88.1% of Wrightsville's 979 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 10.2% Direct and 1.7% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Wrightsville compares
Wrightsville's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (9th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (11th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wrightsville ranks 28,189 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,084 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,819 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
Wrightsville's low rating (11th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Wrightsville
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Wrightsville (88.1% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Wrightsville's 28,189-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Wrightsville, see the exposure-zones guide.