Aliquippa, PA
Aliquippa wildfire risk explained
Aliquippa sits at the 30th 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 5,099 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Aliquippa at the 30th percentile, close to its 30th-percentile risk score.
Where Aliquippa's buildings actually sit
Most of Aliquippa's buildings (91%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone. At 5,099 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Aliquippa ranks
There's little gap between Aliquippa's 30th national percentile and its 37th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Aliquippa ranks 22,231 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,381 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,249 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
Aliquippa's moderate rating (30th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Aliquippa
Aliquippa's 91% 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
Aliquippa's 30th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Aliquippa, see the exposure-zones guide.