Hickory Hills, PA
Hickory Hills wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Hickory Hills at the 63rd national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 376 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Hickory Hills at the 62nd national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Hickory Hills's buildings actually sit
100% of Hickory Hills's 376 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 376 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Hickory Hills against the rest of the country
Hickory Hills's 98th-percentile standing inside Pennsylvania outpaces its 63rd 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, Hickory Hills ranks 11,703 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,747 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 34 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Hickory Hills and the insurance market
Hickory Hills's high rating (63rd percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
With 100% of Hickory Hills in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 376 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Hickory Hills. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Hickory Hills, see the exposure-zones guide.