Sharpsburg, PA
Sharpsburg, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Sharpsburg lands at the 25th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 1,195 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Sharpsburg at the 25th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 99.8% of Sharpsburg's 1,195 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 0.2% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Sharpsburg against the rest of the country
Sharpsburg scores 25th nationally and 29th within Pennsylvania — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sharpsburg ranks 23,711 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,680 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,420 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Sharpsburg and the insurance market
Sharpsburg's moderate wildfire rating (25th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 99.8% of Sharpsburg's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Sharpsburg's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Sharpsburg's 23,711-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Sharpsburg's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.