Church Hill, PA
Church Hill wildfire risk explained
Church Hill's 845 buildings earn a 37th-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.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Church Hill at the 37th percentile, close to its 37th-percentile risk score.
Church Hill's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 47.5% of Church Hill's 845 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 38.7% Direct and 13.9% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Church Hill compares
Compare Church Hill's two percentiles: 56th within Pennsylvania, only 37th nationally — a gap of 18 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Church Hill ranks 19,742 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,205 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 881 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Church Hill and the insurance market
At the 37th national percentile, Church Hill 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
Church Hill's 47.5% 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
Church Hill's 37th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Church Hill, see the exposure-zones guide.