Sturgeon, PA
Sturgeon wildfire risk explained
Sturgeon sits at the 36th 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 837 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Sturgeon at the 38th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Sturgeon's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 58% of Sturgeon's 837 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 42.1% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Sturgeon compares
Within Pennsylvania, Sturgeon ranks higher (53rd percentile) than it does nationally (36th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sturgeon ranks 20,089 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,287 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 936 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
At the 36th national percentile, Sturgeon rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Sturgeon (58% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Sturgeon's 20,089-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Sturgeon, see the exposure-zones guide.