The Hideout, PA
How exposed is The Hideout to wildfire?
USFS scores The Hideout at the 47th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 3,213 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks The Hideout at the 48th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
98.5% of The Hideout's 3,213 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 3,165 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0.8% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0.8% are Minimal.
Where The Hideout ranks
Within Pennsylvania, The Hideout ranks higher (75th percentile) than it does nationally (47th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, The Hideout ranks 16,874 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,152 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 501 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
The Hideout and the insurance market
The Hideout's elevated wildfire rating (47th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
The Hideout's 98.5% 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 The Hideout's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind The Hideout's 16,874-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what The Hideout's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.