Sidman, PA
How exposed is Sidman to wildfire?
Sidman's 314 buildings earn a 36th-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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Sidman at the 36th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Sidman's buildings actually sit
Most of Sidman's buildings (63.4%) 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.
How Sidman compares
Compare Sidman's two percentiles: 51st within Pennsylvania, only 36th nationally — a gap of 16 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sidman ranks 20,345 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,263 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 975 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Sidman
Sidman's moderate wildfire rating (36th 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
Because 63.4% of Sidman's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Sidman's figures come from
Sidman's 36th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Sidman's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.