West Sunbury, PA
West Sunbury wildfire risk explained
West Sunbury sits at the 40th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 121 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, West Sunbury's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 40th percentile nationally.
West Sunbury's building exposure, zone by zone
121 buildings are counted in West Sunbury, and 69.4% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 30.6% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How West Sunbury compares
Compare West Sunbury's two percentiles: 62nd within Pennsylvania, only 40th nationally — a gap of 22 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, West Sunbury ranks 19,047 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,129 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 769 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in West Sunbury
West Sunbury's moderate wildfire rating (40th 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.
Hardening a home in West Sunbury
West Sunbury's 69.4% 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 West Sunbury's 19,047-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond West Sunbury, see the exposure-zones guide.