Pike Creek Valley, DE
Pike Creek Valley, DE's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Pike Creek Valley's 2,263 buildings earn a 21st-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, Pike Creek Valley's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 21st percentile nationally.
Where Pike Creek Valley's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 63.2% of Pike Creek Valley's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 27.8% Direct and 9.1% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Pike Creek Valley ranks
Inside Delaware, Pike Creek Valley sits at just the 5th percentile even though it scores 21st nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pike Creek Valley ranks 24,953 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,786 by building count (1 is largest). Within Delaware alone, it ranks 75 of 79 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Delaware on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Pike Creek Valley
At the 21st national percentile, Pike Creek Valley rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Pike Creek Valley's 63.2% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Pike Creek Valley's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pike Creek Valley's 24,953-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Pike Creek Valley's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.