Pikes Creek, PA
How exposed is Pikes Creek to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Pikes Creek at the 58th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 219 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Pikes Creek's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 59th percentile nationally.
Pikes Creek's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Pikes Creek's 219 counted buildings, 98.6% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Pikes Creek compares
Pikes Creek's 95th-percentile standing inside Pennsylvania outpaces its 58th 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, Pikes Creek ranks 13,250 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,173 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 110 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Pikes Creek and the insurance market
Pikes Creek'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
With 98.6% of Pikes Creek in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pikes Creek's 13,250-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Pikes Creek, see the exposure-zones guide.