Cecil-Bishop, PA
Cecil-Bishop wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Cecil-Bishop at the 35th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,307 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Cecil-Bishop's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 37th percentile nationally.
Cecil-Bishop's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 52.6% of Cecil-Bishop's 1,307 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 47.4% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Cecil-Bishop compares
There's little gap between Cecil-Bishop's 35th national percentile and its 49th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cecil-Bishop ranks 20,651 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,044 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,025 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Cecil-Bishop and the insurance market
Cecil-Bishop's moderate wildfire rating (35th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Cecil-Bishop's 52.6% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,307 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Cecil-Bishop. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Cecil-Bishop, see the exposure-zones guide.