Sierra View, PA
How exposed is Sierra View to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Sierra View at the 60th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 2,125 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Sierra View at the 60th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Sierra View's building exposure, zone by zone
99.8% of Sierra View's 2,125 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 2,121 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0.2% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where Sierra View ranks
Compare Sierra View's two percentiles: 96th within Pennsylvania, only 60th nationally — a gap of 36 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sierra View ranks 12,585 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,129 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 73 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Sierra View
At the 60th percentile nationally, Sierra View carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
Sierra View's 99.8% 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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,125 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Sierra View. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Sierra View, see the exposure-zones guide.