Slickville, PA
Slickville wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Slickville lands at the 39th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 219 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Slickville at the 40th percentile, close to its 39th-percentile risk score.
Where Slickville's buildings actually sit
219 buildings are counted in Slickville, and 89.5% 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 Slickville ranks
Within Pennsylvania, Slickville ranks higher (60th percentile) than it does nationally (39th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Slickville ranks 19,332 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,175 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 803 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Slickville
Slickville's moderate wildfire rating (39th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
Slickville's 89.5% 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.
Where Slickville's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 219 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Slickville. The exposure-zones guide covers what Slickville's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.