Sand Hill, PA
How exposed is Sand Hill to wildfire?
Sand Hill sits at the 20th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,059 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Sand Hill at the 20th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Sand Hill's buildings actually sit
Only 16.9% of Sand Hill's 1,059 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 83.1% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Sand Hill against the rest of the country
Sand Hill's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (22nd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (20th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sand Hill ranks 25,259 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,533 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,564 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Sand Hill
Sand Hill's low rating (20th 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
Sand Hill's 83.1% 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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,059 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Sand Hill. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Sand Hill, see the exposure-zones guide.