Schellsburg, PA
How exposed is Schellsburg to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Schellsburg lands at the 45th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 203 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Schellsburg at the 45th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Schellsburg's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 68.5% of Schellsburg's 203 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 31.5% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Schellsburg against the rest of the country
Compare Schellsburg's two percentiles: 73rd within Pennsylvania, only 45th nationally — a gap of 27 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Schellsburg ranks 17,314 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,747 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 547 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Schellsburg
At the 45th national percentile, Schellsburg rates elevated 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
Schellsburg's 68.5% 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 Schellsburg's 17,314-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Schellsburg, see the exposure-zones guide.