Slippery Rock, PA
Slippery Rock, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Slippery Rock's 981 buildings earn a 33rd-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.)
Separately from the risk score above, Slippery Rock's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 34th percentile nationally.
Slippery Rock's building exposure, zone by zone
981 buildings are counted in Slippery Rock, and 61.8% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 38.2% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Where Slippery Rock ranks
Slippery Rock's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (45th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (33rd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Slippery Rock ranks 21,128 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,067 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,098 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Slippery Rock and the insurance market
Slippery Rock's moderate wildfire rating (33rd 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 61.8% of Slippery Rock's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Slippery Rock's figures come from
Slippery Rock's 33rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Slippery Rock's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.