Summit Hill, PA
How exposed is Summit Hill to wildfire?
Summit Hill sits at the 68th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,525 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Summit Hill at the 67th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Summit Hill's buildings actually sit
Most of Summit Hill's buildings (75%) 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.
Summit Hill against the rest of the country
Compare Summit Hill's two percentiles: 100th within Pennsylvania, only 68th nationally — a gap of 31 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Summit Hill ranks 10,031 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,063 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 9 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Summit Hill and the insurance market
At the 68th percentile nationally, Summit Hill carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Hardening a home in Summit Hill
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Summit Hill (75% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,525 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Summit Hill. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Summit Hill, see the exposure-zones guide.