Clarks Summit, PA
How exposed is Clarks Summit to wildfire?
Clarks Summit's 2,226 buildings earn a 47th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Clarks Summit at the 47th percentile, close to its 47th-percentile risk score.
Where Clarks Summit's buildings actually sit
Most of Clarks Summit's buildings (44.9% of 2,226) 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.
Clarks Summit against the rest of the country
Clarks Summit's 77th-percentile standing inside Pennsylvania outpaces its 47th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Clarks Summit ranks 16,586 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,873 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 464 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Clarks Summit and the insurance market
Clarks Summit's elevated rating (47th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 44.9% of Clarks Summit 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Clarks Summit's 16,586-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Clarks Summit, see the exposure-zones guide.