Silkworth, PA
Silkworth, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Silkworth sits at the 61st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 599 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Silkworth at the 62nd national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Silkworth's buildings actually sit
599 buildings are counted in Silkworth, and 81% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 2.5% rated Minimal.
How Silkworth compares
Within Pennsylvania, Silkworth ranks higher (97th percentile) than it does nationally (61st) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Silkworth ranks 12,334 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,856 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 64 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Silkworth's high rating (61st percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Silkworth
With 81% of Silkworth in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Silkworth's 12,334-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Silkworth, see the exposure-zones guide.