Shippenville, PA
How exposed is Shippenville to wildfire?
Shippenville's 312 buildings earn a 40th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Shippenville at the 41st percentile, close to its 40th-percentile risk score.
Shippenville's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Shippenville's buildings (65.7%) 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 Shippenville ranks
Compare Shippenville's two percentiles: 62nd within Pennsylvania, only 40th nationally — a gap of 22 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Shippenville ranks 18,986 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,328 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 760 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shippenville and the insurance market
Shippenville's moderate rating (40th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Shippenville (65.7% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Shippenville's 40th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Shippenville, see the exposure-zones guide.