Hookstown, PA
How exposed is Hookstown to wildfire?
Hookstown's 121 buildings earn a 39th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Hookstown's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 41st percentile nationally.
Where Hookstown's buildings actually sit
121 buildings are counted in Hookstown, and 55.4% 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 Hookstown ranks
Compare Hookstown's two percentiles: 60th within Pennsylvania, only 39th nationally — a gap of 21 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hookstown ranks 19,237 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,125 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 790 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Hookstown's moderate rating (39th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Hookstown (55.4%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Hookstown's 19,237-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Hookstown, see the exposure-zones guide.