Clifton Heights, PA
Clifton Heights, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Clifton Heights at the 12th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 1,184 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Clifton Heights at the 14th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Clifton Heights's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 98.1% of Clifton Heights's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 1.9% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Clifton Heights against the rest of the country
Clifton Heights scores 12th nationally and 11th within Pennsylvania — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Clifton Heights ranks 27,684 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,743 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,779 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Clifton Heights and the insurance market
At the 12th national percentile, Clifton Heights rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Clifton Heights
Clifton Heights's 98.1% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Clifton Heights's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,184 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Clifton Heights. The exposure-zones guide covers what Clifton Heights's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.