Cherryville, PA
Cherryville, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Cherryville at the 30th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 941 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Cherryville at the 30th percentile, close to its 30th-percentile risk score.
Cherryville's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Cherryville: 82.9% of its 941 buildings, versus 1.4% Indirect and 15.7% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Cherryville compares
There's little gap between Cherryville's 30th national percentile and its 38th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cherryville ranks 22,169 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,387 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,243 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Cherryville
Cherryville's moderate wildfire rating (30th 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.
Hardening a home in Cherryville
With 82.9% of Cherryville 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 Cherryville's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Cherryville's 22,169-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Cherryville's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.