Sickles Corner, PA
Sickles Corner wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Sickles Corner lands at the 58th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 73 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Sickles Corner at the 55th percentile, close to its 58th-percentile risk score.
Where Sickles Corner's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 97.3% of Sickles Corner's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 2.7% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 71 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Sickles Corner ranks
Sickles Corner's 94th-percentile standing inside Pennsylvania outpaces its 58th 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, Sickles Corner ranks 13,278 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,190 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 113 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Sickles Corner and the insurance market
Sickles Corner's elevated wildfire rating (58th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Sickles Corner's 97.3% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Sickles Corner's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 73 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Sickles Corner. The exposure-zones guide covers what Sickles Corner's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.