Shippensburg University, PA
Shippensburg University, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Shippensburg University at the 8th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 79 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Shippensburg University's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 8th percentile nationally.
Shippensburg University's building exposure, zone by zone
Shippensburg University rates 86.1% Minimal exposure against just 13.9% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 79 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Shippensburg University compares
Shippensburg University's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (5th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (8th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Shippensburg University ranks 29,071 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,942 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,892 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shippensburg University and the insurance market
Shippensburg University's low wildfire rating (8th 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.
Hardening a home in Shippensburg University
Even with 86.1% of Shippensburg University 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Shippensburg University's 29,071-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Shippensburg University, see the exposure-zones guide.