Shippensburg, PA
Shippensburg, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Shippensburg sits at the 10th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,856 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Shippensburg at the 10th percentile, close to its 10th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 9.2% of Shippensburg's 1,856 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 90.8% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Shippensburg compares
There's little gap between Shippensburg's 10th national percentile and its 7th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Shippensburg ranks 28,538 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,892 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,843 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Shippensburg
At the 10th national percentile, Shippensburg rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 90.8% of Shippensburg 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.
Where Shippensburg's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Shippensburg's 28,538-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Shippensburg's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.