Sugar Grove, PA
Sugar Grove, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Sugar Grove 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 392 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 Sugar Grove at the 40th percentile, close to its 39th-percentile risk score.
Where Sugar Grove's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Sugar Grove: 66.3% of its 392 buildings, versus 33.7% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Sugar Grove ranks
Compare Sugar Grove's two percentiles: 59th within Pennsylvania, only 39th nationally — a gap of 20 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sugar Grove ranks 19,396 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,381 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 821 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Sugar Grove
Sugar Grove's moderate rating (39th 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 Sugar Grove
Sugar Grove's 66.3% 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.
More on how this number was built
Sugar Grove's 39th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Sugar Grove, see the exposure-zones guide.