Susquehanna Trails, PA
Susquehanna Trails wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Susquehanna Trails at the 10th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 1,139 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Susquehanna Trails at the 8th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Susquehanna Trails: 98.5% of its 1,139 buildings, versus 1.5% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Susquehanna Trails ranks
Susquehanna Trails scores 10th nationally and 8th within Pennsylvania — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Susquehanna Trails ranks 28,476 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,022 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,837 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Susquehanna Trails
Susquehanna Trails's low wildfire rating (10th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Susquehanna Trails (98.5%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,139 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Susquehanna Trails. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Susquehanna Trails, see the exposure-zones guide.