Slatedale, PA
Slatedale, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Slatedale's 234 buildings earn a 40th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Slatedale at the 39th percentile, close to its 40th-percentile risk score.
Slatedale's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 56.4% of Slatedale's 234 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 18.8% Direct and 24.8% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Slatedale against the rest of the country
Slatedale's 62nd-percentile standing inside Pennsylvania outpaces its 40th 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, Slatedale ranks 18,953 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,685 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 751 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
Slatedale's moderate rating (40th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Slatedale
Slatedale's 56.4% 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
Slatedale's 40th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Slatedale, see the exposure-zones guide.