Clarks Green, PA
Clarks Green wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Clarks Green at the 38th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 718 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Clarks Green at the 39th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Clarks Green's buildings actually sit
Most of Clarks Green's buildings (67.1% of 718) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
How Clarks Green compares
Compare Clarks Green's two percentiles: 58th within Pennsylvania, only 38th nationally — a gap of 19 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Clarks Green ranks 19,519 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,484 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 841 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Clarks Green
At the 38th national percentile, Clarks Green rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 67.1% of Clarks Green outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 718 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Clarks Green. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Clarks Green, see the exposure-zones guide.