Sharpsville, PA
Sharpsville wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Sharpsville at the 26th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 2,263 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Sharpsville at the 27th percentile, close to its 26th-percentile risk score.
Sharpsville's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Sharpsville's buildings (80.1%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Sharpsville compares
There's little gap between Sharpsville's 26th national percentile and its 31st percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sharpsville ranks 23,307 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,787 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,378 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Sharpsville
Sharpsville's moderate wildfire rating (26th 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
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Sharpsville (80.1% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Sharpsville's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,263 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Sharpsville. The exposure-zones guide covers what Sharpsville's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.