Skippack, PA
How exposed is Skippack to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Skippack lands at the 13th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 1,374 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Skippack's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 12th percentile nationally.
Where Skippack's buildings actually sit
Most of Skippack's buildings (55.7%) 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.
Skippack against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Skippack's 13th national percentile and its 11th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Skippack ranks 27,593 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,737 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,774 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Skippack and the insurance market
Skippack's low rating (13th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Skippack's 55.7% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Skippack's 27,593-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Skippack, see the exposure-zones guide.