Creekside, PA
Creekside wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Creekside lands at the 41st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 169 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Creekside at the 42nd national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
169 buildings are counted in Creekside, and 72.8% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Where Creekside ranks
Compare Creekside's two percentiles: 65th within Pennsylvania, only 41st nationally — a gap of 24 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Creekside ranks 18,543 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,080 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 694 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Creekside and the insurance market
Creekside's elevated rating (41st 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
Creekside's 72.8% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Creekside's 41st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Creekside, see the exposure-zones guide.