Sheffield, PA
Sheffield, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Sheffield at the 11th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 698 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Sheffield at the 11th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Sheffield's building exposure, zone by zone
698 buildings are counted in Sheffield, and 64% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 36% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Sheffield compares
There's little gap between Sheffield's 11th national percentile and its 9th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sheffield ranks 28,065 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,681 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,806 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Sheffield
Sheffield's low wildfire rating (11th 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
Sheffield's 64% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 698 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Sheffield. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Sheffield, see the exposure-zones guide.