Hyde, PA
Hyde wildfire risk explained
Hyde sits at the 50th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 743 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Hyde at the 51st national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Hyde's building exposure, zone by zone
62.2% of Hyde's 743 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 37.8% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Hyde compares
Hyde's 82nd-percentile standing inside Pennsylvania outpaces its 50th 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, Hyde ranks 15,768 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,201 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 367 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Hyde and the insurance market
Hyde's elevated wildfire rating (50th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 62.2% of Hyde's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Hyde's 15,768-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Hyde, see the exposure-zones guide.