Sharon, PA
Sharon, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Sharon at the 27th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 7,219 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Sharon's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 28th percentile nationally.
Where Sharon's buildings actually sit
Only 3% of Sharon's 7,219 buildings carry Direct exposure and 31.5% carry Indirect; the remaining 65.6% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 7,219 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Sharon against the rest of the country
Sharon's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (32nd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (27th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sharon ranks 23,020 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,376 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,351 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Sharon and the insurance market
Sharon's moderate wildfire rating (27th 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
Even with 65.6% of Sharon outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 7,219 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Sharon. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Sharon, see the exposure-zones guide.