Nanticoke, PA
Nanticoke wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Nanticoke at the 58th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 4,626 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Nanticoke at the 56th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Nanticoke's building exposure, zone by zone
93.8% of Nanticoke's 4,626 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 6.3% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where Nanticoke ranks
Compare Nanticoke's two percentiles: 94th within Pennsylvania, only 58th nationally — a gap of 37 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Nanticoke ranks 13,372 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,674 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 117 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Nanticoke
Nanticoke's elevated rating (58th 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
Nanticoke's 93.8% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Nanticoke's 13,372-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Nanticoke, see the exposure-zones guide.