Skelp, PA
Skelp wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Skelp at the 46th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 99 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Skelp at the 46th percentile, close to its 46th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Skelp's 99 counted buildings, 58.6% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Skelp ranks
Skelp's 75th-percentile standing inside Pennsylvania outpaces its 46th 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, Skelp ranks 16,908 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,103 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 507 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
At the 46th national percentile, Skelp rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Skelp
Skelp's 58.6% 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 Skelp's 16,908-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Skelp, see the exposure-zones guide.