Shickshinny, PA
Shickshinny, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Shickshinny at the 61st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 392 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Shickshinny at the 59th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Shickshinny's buildings actually sit
Most of Shickshinny's buildings (77%) 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.
Where Shickshinny ranks
Shickshinny's 97th-percentile standing inside Pennsylvania outpaces its 61st 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, Shickshinny ranks 12,271 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,380 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 62 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Shickshinny
Shickshinny's 61st-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Shickshinny (77% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Shickshinny's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Shickshinny's 12,271-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Shickshinny's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.