Sun Valley, PA
Sun Valley, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Sun Valley at the 62nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 1,156 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Sun Valley at the 62nd percentile, close to its 62nd-percentile risk score.
Where Sun Valley's buildings actually sit
99.7% of Sun Valley's 1,156 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 1,153 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0.3% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
How Sun Valley compares
Within Pennsylvania, Sun Valley ranks higher (98th percentile) than it does nationally (62nd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sun Valley ranks 11,927 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,910 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 48 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Sun Valley
Sun Valley's high rating (62nd percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
Sun Valley's 99.7% 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.
Where Sun Valley's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Sun Valley's 11,927-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Sun Valley's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.