Sinnamahoning, PA
Sinnamahoning wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Sinnamahoning at the 62nd national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 115 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Sinnamahoning's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 59th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
115 buildings are counted in Sinnamahoning, and 99.1% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Where Sinnamahoning ranks
Compare Sinnamahoning's two percentiles: 97th within Pennsylvania, only 62nd nationally — a gap of 36 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sinnamahoning ranks 12,074 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,425 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 54 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
Sinnamahoning's high rating (62nd 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Sinnamahoning's 99.1% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Sinnamahoning's 12,074-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Sinnamahoning, see the exposure-zones guide.