Nescopeck, PA
How exposed is Nescopeck to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Nescopeck lands at the 34th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 983 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Nescopeck at the 35th percentile, close to its 34th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 91.5% of Nescopeck's 983 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 8.3% Direct and 0.2% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Nescopeck compares
Nescopeck scores 34th nationally and 47th within Pennsylvania — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Nescopeck ranks 20,811 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,054 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,051 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
At the 34th national percentile, Nescopeck rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Nescopeck
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Nescopeck (91.5% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Nescopeck's 20,811-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Nescopeck, see the exposure-zones guide.