Brickerville, PA
Brickerville wildfire risk explained
Brickerville's 685 buildings earn a 17th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Brickerville at the 14th national percentile — 3 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Brickerville's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 85.4% of Brickerville's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 6.9% Indirect share and far above its 7.7% Minimal share — a profile where 585 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Brickerville compares
There's little gap between Brickerville's 17th national percentile and its 17th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brickerville ranks 26,230 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,818 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,646 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Brickerville and the insurance market
At the 17th national percentile, Brickerville rates low 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 85.4% of Brickerville in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
Where Brickerville's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Brickerville's 26,230-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Brickerville's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.