Valley View (Schuylkill), PA
Valley View (Schuylkill), PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Valley View (Schuylkill) at the 52nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 1,165 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Valley View (Schuylkill)'s burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 50th percentile nationally.
Where Valley View (Schuylkill)'s buildings actually sit
Indirect exposure is dominant in Valley View (Schuylkill) (77% of 1,165 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 23% sit in the Direct zone.
Where Valley View (Schuylkill) ranks
Within Pennsylvania, Valley View (Schuylkill) ranks higher (85th percentile) than it does nationally (52nd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Valley View (Schuylkill) ranks 15,267 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,872 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 301 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Valley View (Schuylkill)'s elevated rating (52nd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Valley View (Schuylkill)'s 77% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Valley View (Schuylkill)'s 15,267-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Valley View (Schuylkill), see the exposure-zones guide.