Sewickley Hills, PA
How exposed is Sewickley Hills to wildfire?
Sewickley Hills's 382 buildings earn a 36th-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.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Sewickley Hills at the 36th percentile, close to its 36th-percentile risk score.
Where Sewickley Hills's buildings actually sit
Of Sewickley Hills's 382 counted buildings, 97.1% 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 Sewickley Hills compares
Sewickley Hills's 53rd-percentile standing inside Pennsylvania outpaces its 36th 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, Sewickley Hills ranks 20,122 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,607 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 944 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Sewickley Hills
Sewickley Hills's moderate wildfire rating (36th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Sewickley Hills's 97.1% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 382 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Sewickley Hills. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Sewickley Hills, see the exposure-zones guide.