Slovan, PA
Slovan, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Slovan sits at the 39th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 342 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Slovan at the 42nd national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Slovan's buildings actually sit
Most of Slovan's buildings (75.2%) 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.
How Slovan compares
Compare Slovan's two percentiles: 61st within Pennsylvania, only 39th nationally — a gap of 22 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Slovan ranks 19,175 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,532 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 782 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Slovan and the insurance market
Slovan'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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 75.2% of Slovan'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 Slovan's figures come from
Slovan's 39th-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 Slovan's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.